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roisterer

Other forms: roisterers

A roisterer is a person who knows how to have a rollicking good time. You can describe the guy at your birthday party with the loudest laugh as a roisterer.

The noun roisterer is most often used to describe someone who takes his partying too far, creating a disturbance or having too much to drink. You can also use it to talk about loud, boisterous merrymakers, like the whooping roisterers at your backyard barbecue. Roisterer isn't used much these days, but it's been around since the 1600's, from roister, or "noisy bully," with its Latin root of rusticus, "rustic" or "rough country fellow."

Definitions of roisterer
  1. noun
    an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker
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    type of:
    merrymaker, reveler, reveller
    a celebrant who shares in a noisy party
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