roaring boy

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nounroaring boy (plural roaring boys)

archaicSynonym of roarer (“brawling young man”).
The Gipsie snap & Pedro are none of Toms Comradoes, yͤ punck I skorne, & yͤ cutpurse sworn & yͤ roring boyes brauadoes
c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
Synonyms: roarer

nounSynonym of roarer (“brawling young man”).

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