Meanings
royster1
verbroyster (third-person singular simple present roysters, present participle roystering, simple past and past participle roystered)
present singular third person roysters · participle present roystering · participle past roystered · past roystered
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of roister.
The only son of his father, an honest man, and a quiet man, not a roystering drunken robber!
1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XI, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC
nounroyster (plural roysters)
plural roysters
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of roister.
He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick on him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun.
1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 77
Royster2
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APA
royster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/royster
MLA
“royster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/royster. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “royster,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/royster.
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