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Meaning of roister-doister | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A swaggering buffoon; a foolish braggart.

archaic, derogatory

Examples

“A very artificiall beginning, to moove attention or to procure good-liking in the reader, unlesse he wrote onely to roister-doisters, and hacksters, or at least to jesters, and vices.”

CEFR level

C2
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See also

Roistered Roisterer Roistering roisterousness Roisters roitelet

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