Roistering

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.

    "[H]e could look on with an eye of kindness at the lookers-on too; at the roystering youth bent upon enjoyment, and here taking it […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of roister form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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roisterousblusteringboisterousnoisyragingranting

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"[H]e could look on with an eye of kindness at the lookers-on too; at the roystering youth bent upon enjoyment, and here taking it […]"

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