roaring boy

English

Noun

roaring boy (plural roaring boys)

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