Royster

name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of roister. alt-of, obsolete

    "He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick on him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun."

Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of roister. alt-of, obsolete

    "The only son of his father, an honest man, and a quiet man, not a roystering drunken robber!"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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carousecarouseriotswaggerbluffbluster

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"The only son of his father, an honest man, and a quiet man, not a roystering drunken robber!"

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