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Meaning of roose | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To flatter or praise.
    Scotland, dialectal
  2. To be proud.
    Scotland, dialectal

Examples

“Ha'e na ye roosed my cheeks like the morning? Ha'e na ye roosed my cherry-red mou?”
“He roosed my e'en, sae bonnie blue, He roosed my waist sae genty sma' And aye my heart came to my mou' When ne'er a body heard or saw.”
“For some of them ha'e roosed their hawks, And some other their hounds; And some other their ladies fair, As the roosing went the rounds.”
“You will have seen how a' the newspapers roosed the skatin o' an offisher, that they said lived in the Castle.”
“I suld ha'e said ' Ye're a' that's guid,' I suld ha'e sung, ' Ye're a' that's bonnie,' I suld ha'e roosed your race an' bluid — O' a' the three I've ne'er dune ony.”
“They danced round and round their merry Jockie Faw, And roosed the gypsie laddie.”
“I'll cock my nose aboon them a' — I'm roosed by Craigengillan !”
“A'm roosed — a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid, ye ken, when ye tell me a canna gaff a fusshe ! Tak aff yere coat, mon, for a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid.”
“Mrs. Tam, like all decent people in the village, was "real roosed."”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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