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NOUNS 1. a roisterer, a swaggerer (obsolete) 2. a state of hurry or excitement (dialect obsolete) VERBS to behave uproariously (obsolete) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY From: E-NED Origin obscure: perhaps originally a reduplication or rhyming expansion of rory, roary, from roar (n.) or (vb.) The English Dialect Dictionary cites it from South Lancashire as meaning ‘a state of hurry or excitement’. After 1680 it was sometimes abusively associated with Tory (n.); but there can hardly have been any original connection. Reference to the Irish Tories or outlaws and marauders is chronologically possible, but not evidenced. EXAMPLE From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, Translated into English, 1653 Volume II The Most Certain, True, and Infallible Pantagruelian Prognostication Chapter IV. Of the Fruits of the Earth this Year. P.431
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