roarer
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
roarer (plural roarers)
- One who roars.
- (archaic) One of a group of young men who would carouse in taverns, then pick brawls on the street for entertainment.
- (archaic, slang) A broken-winded horse.
- 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 23, in Middlemarch […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
- He had never before been so much struck with the fact that this unfortunate bay was a roarer […]
Synonyms edit
- (young man who picks brawls): roaring boy