roaring boy

English

Noun

roaring boy (plural roaring boys)

1. (archaic) Synonym of roarer (“brawling young man”)
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The Gipsie snap & Pedro
     are none of Toms Comradoes,
     yͤ punck I skorne, & yͤ cutpurse sworn
     & yͤ roring boyes brauadoes