Meanings of roister in English

From the hall, he could hear the sound of a great roister.

There's bound to be at least one mild roister-doister, to use Scott Murray's beloved phrase.

Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister?

This Thomas considered a good sign, as players always gave an evening's roister a more festive air.

He had a son, whose name was Tenot Dandin, a lusty, young, sturdy, frisking roister, so help me God!

It seems clear that to Shakespeare's audiences the proper way for a budding hero to behave was to roister with a drunken buffoon.

While he himself was a model of integrity, he was never "square" and when the job demanded it could roister with the best.

It's occasionally said that at 1.30am, Channel 4 temporarily pulled the plug as a result of Reed's roister-doistering, producers throwing the blootered actor off set.

In place of the solemn-visaged, psalm-singing Roundhead, we have the gay, roistering Cavalier.

Daylight's friendships, in lieu of anything closer, were drinking friendships and roistering friendships.

Like Ralph Roister Doister, she should ha' been married o' Sunday.

The newspapers were free in their condemnation of the feasting and roistering at ordination-services.

It was otherwise with the roistering swash-bucklers who came back in that glorious autumn.

A second party roistered off down the hill to tidy up the bricks there.

On the contrary, he probably remained much the same drunken, roistering heathen as before.

Never had such a set of noisy, roistering, swaggering varlets landed in peaceful Communipaw.