roister-doister

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A swaggering buffoon; a foolish braggart. archaic,derogatory
    — A very artificiall beginning, to moove attention or to procure good-liking in the reader, unlesse he wrote onely to roister-doisters, and hacksters, or at least to jesters, and vices.

词形变化

roister-doisters plural

词源

After Ralph Roister Doister, a 16th-century comic play by Nicholas Udall. See roister (“to engage in riotous behaviour”).
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