roister-doister

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roister-doister

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

noun roister-doisters

archaic, derogatory A swaggering buffoon; a foolish braggart. 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.

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@misc{roister_doister_2026,
  title = {roister-doister},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/roister-doister},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}