roister-doister

Noun

archaic derogatory

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

Japanese Meaning

虚勢を張る道化 / 愚かで自慢ばかりする人物

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At the town fair, everyone laughed at the boisterous roister-doister who kept interrupting the performers.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

町の縁日で、出し物を何度も邪魔する威張り散らす道化者をみんなが笑いものにした。

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(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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roister-doisters

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