roose

present singular third person rooses · participle present roosing · participle past roosed · past roosed · alternative ruse · alternative ruis

1. ScotlanddialectalTo flatter or praise.

   They danced round and round their merry Jockie Faw, And roosed the gypsie laddie.

   1921, Lowry Charles Wimberly, Minstrelsy, Music, and the Dance in the English and Scottish Popular Ballads

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   Ha'e na ye roosed my cheeks like the morning? Ha'e na ye roosed my cherry-red mou?

   1809, Hector MacNeill, Oh, Tell Me How For to Woo.

   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.

   1870, Robert Burns, “Young Jockey”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Complete.

   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.

   1871, “Maid Mettelil”, in The Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland

   You will have seen how a' the newspapers roosed the skatin o' an offisher, that they said lived in the Castle.

   1876, John Wilson, Sir John Skelton, The Comedy of the Noctes Ambrosianae, page 51

   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.

   1890, James Coghill, “To Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, On the Anniversary of Her Coronation, 28th June”, in Poems, Songs and Sonnets, page 52

2. ScotlanddialectalTo be proud.

   I'll cock my nose aboon them a' — I'm roosed by Craigengillan !

   1865, The British Poets - Volume 2, page 43

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   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.

   1874, Francis Francis, By Lake and River: an Angler's Rambles in the North of England and Scotland

   Mrs. Tam, like all decent people in the village, was "real roosed."

   1957, Robert Blackwood Robertson, Of sheep and men, page 164

plural Rooses

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableAn eastern suburb of Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD2269).