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roarn.1

Brit. /rɔː/, U.S. /rɔr/
Forms:

α. Middle English–1600s rore, 1600s roare, 1600s– roar, 1900s– rooar (English regional (Yorkshire)); also Scottish pre-1700 roir, pre-1700 royr.

β. English regional (northern) 1800s– rair; Scottish pre-1700 raire, pre-1700 rare, pre-1700 rayr, pre-1700 1700s– rair.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: roar v.1
Etymology: < roar v.1In sense 1c (especially in the phrase in (also on) a roar) sometimes difficult to distinguish from roar n.2 2. Compare the Old English prefixed form gerār roaring, howling (compare y- prefix):OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 10 Jan. 14 Þær he næfre naht oþres ne geseah ne ne gehyrde butan leona grymetunge ond wulfa gerar.
1.
a. A full, deep, prolonged cry uttered by a lion or other large (typically wild) animal; (also) a loud and deep sound uttered by a person or crowd, esp. as an expression of pain, anger, or approval.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > roar or bellow
roara1393
yellc1440
lout?a1500
rout1513
bellow1779
trumpet1850
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > roar or bellow
roustc1175
roaringc1225
reirdc1330
roara1393
romyinga1425
routinga1425
belling1582
bellow1818
braming-
α.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 2183 (MED) A dragoun..Com in rampende..With such a noise and such a rore That thei agast were.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 17964 (MED) Thei broght tho many boles & bores With lowyng & with loude rores.
a1500 (?a1475) Guy of Warwick (Cambr. Ff.2.38) 6932 (MED) The beste hym felyd smetyn sore: He caste a crye and a rore.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 8518 Þen Andromoca..With a rufull rore rent of hir clothis.
1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 115 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 285 The pure pig gaif a rore [rhyme moir].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 320 Sure it was the roare Of a whole heard of Lyons. View more context for this quotation
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 22 in Justa Edouardo King The rout that made the hideous rore.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 140 The slipp'ry God..he seem a bristly Boar, Or imitates the Lion's angry Roar.
1743 A. Hill Fanciad ii. 14 Out-bursting here, fierce Roars, with Roars combin'd, Mix'd their clash'd Curses, wild as fighting Wind.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 201 They all seize it with a bound, at the same time expressing their fierce pleasure with a roar.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 62 The panther's roar came muffled, while I sat Low in the valley.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. vii. 192 A roar of hired applause interrupted him.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Oct. 2/1 When the names of the agents..came out, you should have heard the roar of savage ‘boos’.
1929 H. Walpole Hans Frost ii. iv. 148 The roars of the lions could be heard quivering the silences in the thickness of the jungle.
1972 J. Gunn Wild Abyss xx. 118 He gave a roar of pain that drowned out the engine.
1989 N. Williams & C. Breen When Summer's in Meadow 128 At first it was only the sound of annoyance, the raised roar of a cow whose calf had gone to the wrong side of the fence.
2001 N.Y. Times 2 May c6/6 The next day he drained a 40-footer on the 18th hole. There was a huge roar from the crowd.
β. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aii* Than dynnyt the duergh..With raris quhil the rude hall reirdit agane.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. ii. 11 About thar closouris braying with mony rair.c1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiv. 116 The Babe he gifis ane rair.1603 Philotus 287 Ay rumisching with rift and rair.1728 A. Ramsay Last Speech Miser in Poems II. 103 With a Rair, Away his wretched Spirit flew.a1878 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns & Poems (1892) 218 Wi' eerie rair an' rowt Cried the wakrife spirit out.1894 in R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 562 The yow gav a blare, an' Robin a rair.?2002 I. W. D. Forde Hale ir Sindries ii. vii. 171 Wi a rair lik a jagwar.
b. Rumour. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > rumour > [noun]
speechc1000
wordOE
hearinga1300
opinion1340
talesa1375
famea1387
inklinga1400
slandera1400
noising1422
rumour?a1425
bruit1477
nickinga1500
commoninga1513
roarc1520
murmura1522
hearsay?1533
cry1569
scandal1596
vogue1626
discourse1677
sough1716
circulation1775
gossip1811
myth1849
breeze1879
sound1899
potin1922
dirt1926
rumble1929
skinny1938
labrish1942
lie and story1950
scam1964
he-say-she-say1972
factoid1973
ripple1977
goss1985
c1520 Vox Populi 88 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 271 The encrease was never more. Thus goythe the voyce and rore. And truthe yt is indeade.
c. A boisterous outburst of laughter. in (also on) a roar: in a state of extreme amusement; roaring with laughter (probably in allusion to Shakespeare's use: see quot. 1604 at roar n.2 2).
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > loud, coarse, or immoderate laughter > instance or outburst of
gawf?a1513
roar1675
horse-laugh1713
guffaw1720
ha ha1806
haw-haw1838
hee-haw1843
yaw-haw1912
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 126 This fellow subjugates the Earth In a perpetual roar of mirth, Of fidling, dancing, wenching, drinking.
1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy Fortunate Country Maid II. 277 This Conclusion was so diverting as to set the Table in a Roar.
1757 Maxims, Char., & Refl., Crit., Satyrica, & Moral (ed. 2) clxxi. 69 Hark! what a roar of laughter..! He is certainly entertaining his company.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. xxix. 176 It was Tugwell who had ‘set the table on a roar’, by getting upon the end of it, and holding forth in imitation of his Master and Mr. Whitfield.
1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xli. 424 His flashes of wit and humour keep the table in a roar.
1803 Pic Nic No. 4. 8 [He] kept the company in a roar of laughter.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 219 He was once in danger of being turned out of the gallery for setting all around him in a roar.
1839 A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews III. iii. 58 His personification of an elderly respectable sort of gentleman, very sea-sick..was ludicrous in the extreme, and set the house ‘on a roar’ at almost every word.
1870 Galaxy July 123/2 Good actors..will set the house on a roar, simply by the infection of their laughter.
1872 T. Allan & G. Allan Tyneside Songs (1891) 416 Where's a' his funny sayin's, that set a' the Geordies in a roar?
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xii. 237 A roar of laughter interrupted him.
1908 H. H. Peerless Diary 8 June in Brief Jolly Change (2003) 120 We..listened with considerable amusement to a comical cheap-jack..who kept the people in a continual roar of laughter.
1925 V. Lindsay Coll. Poems i. 59 Yorick is dead... Where are those oddities and capers now That used to ‘set the table on a roar’?.
1953 S. J. Perelman in New Yorker 14 Mar. 31/3 I..had everybody in a roar pretending to swallow a table knife.
1995 T. F. Evans in F. D. Crawford Shaw 32 Even without the felicitous similarity of Marconi and Maccaroni, this must have had the house on a roar.
2000 S. Brett Body on Beach (2001) vi. 43 There was a roar of raucous laughter from the bar.
2. A loud, deep, prolonged sound made by something, as the sea, wind, heavy guns, traffic, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > [noun]
reirdc1330
bellowing1393
roaringa1398
routinga1425
whurling1495
rummishing?a1500
roara1522
boation1646
intonation1658
fremitus1820
bellow1827
fremescence1837
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. ii. l. 11 And thai [sc. the winds]..About thar closouris brayng with mony a rare.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. G v With..horrible rore and terrible thunderinge of gunnes.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour iv. 5998 in Wks. (1931) I Than, with ane rair, the erth sall ryve, And swolly thame.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 713 The floods of troubled aire to pitchie stormes increase,..Encountring with abhorred roares.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 43 Come then, and leave the Waves tumultuous roar.
1729 J. Gay Polly i. viii. 13 Old oaks can defy the thunder's roar.
1768 T. Gray Triumphs of Owen in Poems 104 Talymalfra's rocky shore Echoing to the battle's roar.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 50 The roar of those waters has made my head dizzy already.
1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxii. 14 Arm! Arm! it is..the cannon's opening roar.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxiv. 245 We see its deep indigo horizon, and hear its roar against the icy beach.
1897 R. H. Davis Notes War Correspondent (1911) 9 That statue of Nathan Hale which stands in the City Hall Park, above the roar of Broadway.
1934 Boys' Mag. 47 23/2 The four engines were started, ‘revved’ with a deafening roar..and then left quietly ‘idling’.
1967 Sputnik Monthly Digest Nov. 67/1 With a roar an avalanche of water escapes.
2001 Daily Tel. 14 May 9/6 The..song of the nightjar has replaced the roar of American nuclear bombers at Greenham Common.

Phrases

with a roar: with remarkable success; with easy and rapid progress; impressively. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > conspicuously
with a roar1845
to go (over) big1903
to go with a swing1976
1845 C. Dickens Let. 6 Aug. (1977) IV. 347 It was a most prodigious success; and went, with a roar, all through.
1903 G. B. Shaw Let. 12 June (1972) II. 331 ‘The Admirable Bashville’..went with a roar from beginning to end.
1907 Punch 1 May 308/2 Everything went with a roar.
1996 Denver Post 11 Feb. h4/2 Young employees who begin with a roar typically do not flame out after 30 years.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

roarn.2

Forms:

α. late Middle English–1500s roore, late Middle English–1600s rore.

β. 1500s–1600s roare, 1600s roar.

Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch roere.
Etymology: < Middle Dutch roere (Dutch roer ), cognate with Old Saxon hrōra (Middle Low German rōre , rōr ), Old High German ruora (Middle High German ruore , German Ruhr , now rare as a simplex in this sense, compare Aufruhr uproar n.), noun of action < the Germanic base of rore v. Compare slightly later rore v.Compare ( < the same Germanic base) Old English hrōr , Middle Dutch roer (Dutch roer , now rare), Old Saxon hrōr (Middle Low German rōr ), all in sense ‘active’. The rhyme of rore with pore (see poor adj.) in quot. a1413 at sense 1α. confirms that the word was originally distinct from roar n.1, with which it appears to have merged later (compare sense 2). With sense 1, compare (with in a roar) Middle Dutch in roere bringen , in roere zijn , in roere werden , etc. and (with on a roar) the less common constructionsan roere maken , an roere zijn , etc. In sense 2 sometimes difficult to distinguish from roar n.1 1c; in later use in this sense probably apprehended by most speakers as showing roar n.1
Obsolete.
1. Uproar, tumult, disturbance. Chiefly in in (also on, upon) a roar: in tumult or confusion.Later examples could be interpreted as illustrating roar n.1
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun]
winOE
torpelness?c1225
disturbance1297
workc1325
disturblingc1330
farec1330
frapec1330
disturbing1340
troublingc1340
blunderc1375
unresta1382
hurling1387
perturbationc1400
turbationc1400
rumblec1405
roara1413
rumourc1425
sturblance1435
troublec1435
stroublance1439
hurlc1440
hurly-burlyc1440
ruffling1440
stourc1440
rumblingc1450
sturbancec1450
unquietness?c1450
conturbationc1470
ruption1483
stir1487
wanrufe?a1505
rangat?a1513
business1514
turmoil1526
blommera1529
blunderinga1529
disturbation1529
bruyllie1535
garboil1543
bruslery1546
agitation1547
frayment1549
turmoiling1550
whirl1552
confusion1555
troublesomeness1561
rule1567
rummage1575
rabble1579
tumult1580
hurlement1585
rabblement1590
disturb1595
welter1596
coil1599
hurly1600
hurry1600
commotion1616
remotion1622
obturbation1623
stirrance1623
tumultuation1631
commoving1647
roiling1647
spudder1650
suffle1650
dissettlement1654
perturbancy1654
fermentationa1661
dissettledness1664
ferment1672
roil1690
hurry-scurry1753
vortex1761
rumpus1768
widdle1789
gilravagea1796
potheration1797
moil1824
festerment1833
burly1835
fidge1886
static1923
comess1944
frammis1946
bassa-bassa1956
α.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 45 Why nyl I brynge al Troye vpon a rore [a1425 Corpus Cambr. 61 roore; rhyme pore]?
?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 71 (MED) Þise forseide prestis & knyȝtis..boolden hem in synne, þat al þis worlde is sett in rore, in bataile, & in werre.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 436 Rore, or truble amonge þe puple, tumultus, commotio, disturbium.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xx. 456 For therof ye shall see all fraunce in a rore & trowble.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xix. 29 The cite was on a roore.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 41/1 Thus should all the realme fall on a rore.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 292 The people beeyng in a greate rore willed enquierie..to be made who it was.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 2 By your Art..you haue Put the wild waters in this Rore . View more context for this quotation
β. 1539 Bible (Great) Acts xvii. f. liiiiv/1 The Iewes..gathered a company, and set all the cytie on a roare.1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips liv. 366 The Ephesians, which were all on a roare and worse than madde.1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Blacke Smyth xlix When I perceyved the Commons in a roare.1681 N. Lee Lucius Junius Brutus 48 My thoughts were up in arms All in a roar, like Seamen in a Storm.
2. A wild outburst of mirth. Only in on a roar Obsolete.Examples alluding to Shakespeare's use (quot. 1604) are probably all in the sense of in (also on) a roar at roar n.1 1c and are therefore entered there.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > vehement, convulsive, or wild laughter > outburst of
on a roar1604
convulsion1735
chink1767
fou rire1914
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 187 Where be your gibes now?..your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roare . View more context for this quotation
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

roarv.1

Brit. /rɔː/, U.S. /rɔr/
Forms:

α. (northern in later use) Old English rarian, Middle English rar, Middle English rare, Middle English rayre, 1800s– rair (English regional (Northumberland)); Scottish pre-1700 raire, pre-1700 rar, pre-1700 rayr, pre-1700 1700s– rair, pre-1700 1700s– rare, 1800s rear.

β. Middle English rory, Middle English–1500s roore, Middle English–1600s rore, 1500s roer (north midlands), 1500s–1600s roare, 1500s– roar, 1800s rwoar (English regional (Westmorland)), 1800s– rooar (English regional (northern)), 1800s– roor (English regional); Scottish pre-1700 roer, pre-1700 roir, pre-1700 roire, pre-1700 rord (past tense), pre-1700 rore, pre-1700 1700s– roar.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch reeren , reren (Dutch regional (eastern) reeren ), Middle Low German rāren (German regional (Low German) raren , reren , roren ), Old High German rēren (Middle High German rēren , German röhren , now only of the cry of a rutting stag) < a Germanic base apparently ultimately of imitative origin; perhaps related to an Indo-European base seen also in Sanskrit rā- to bark, Church Slavonic rarŭ sound, Russian (regional) rajat′ to sound, Lithuanian rieti to bark, scold, rojoti to crow in an alarmed manner, Latvian riet to bark. Compare rere v.2With sense 1c compare earlier roarer n.1 2, roaring n.1 3.
1.
a. intransitive. Of a large (typically wild) animal (esp. a lion): to utter a loud deep cry. Also with out.In quot. OE at α. in figurative context. In quot. 1645 at β. figurative or punningly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > roar or bellow
roarOE
bellOE
yellOE
romya1325
droun1340
bellow1486
shouta1500
whurl1530
rout1554
fream1575
brill1863
α.
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. Pref. Marcum in quo uox leonis in heremo rugientis auditur : marc in ðæm stefn leas in woestern roeðe uel rarende uel bellende gehered bið.
a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) 242 Lions, beres, bath bul and bare, Þat rewfully gan rope and rare.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 784 (MED) A blake bustous bere..He romede, he rarede, that roggede all þe erthe.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The suyne began to quhryne quhen thai herd the asse rair.
1584 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 87 For lyons young at night beginnis to raire.
1666 Pleugh-song in J. Forbes Cantus (ed. 2) sig. K I shal brod him [sc. an ox] while he rair.
1843 J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie's Wallet 9 Nor marvel ye sair, Tho' close by your lug a bit donkey should rair.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 245 Rair,..of cattle: to low.
1977 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. II. 154 To bellow (of bulls), [Argyll] rair.
β. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 254 (MED) Asne rezane [glossed:] roreth [v.rr. roris, criet an roret].c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 22* Leon romyst, Lyoun rorith. Vrs grundile, Bere rorith. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 437 Rooryn, as beestys, rugio.c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. l. 119 (MED) Litill..þe list for to rewe On rascaile þat rorid with ribbis so lene For fauȝte of her fode.1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes xxii. 45 Like a Lion roring out, And ramping for his praye.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xx. 223 A Lion in the wood..roared so dernely.1645 R. Harwood Loyall Subiects Retiring-roome 23 Doe but permit Luther to keep close, till the Popes Bull hath done roaring.a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 272 When the mouths of lions roared against me.1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 206 Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar.1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 101 A tiger roared out.1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 556 Five or six bulls had stamped and roared and gored and died.1912 A. Lange In Amazon Jungle v. 245 The jaguar fell, roaring with pain.1993 New Scientist 11 Sept. 7/1 Carnivorous dinosaurs did not roar like lions, and herbivores did not bellow like bulls.
b. intransitive. Of a smaller animal, such as a bird, frog, etc. Also in extended use: (of a swarm of bees) to make a loud buzzing noise.
ΚΠ
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 264v Þe lomb knoweþ his owne moder in so moche þat if he roreþ [v.r. arereþ; L. errauerit] among many schepe in a flokke, anon by bletynge he knoweþ þe voice of his owne mooder.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 59 He lay at the plunge evirmair, Sa lang as any ravin did rair.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 696 in Wks. (1931) I The reukis sall rair, that men sall on thame rew.
1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 300 Jan. 15, the bees roared, and were as busy as they are in the height of the working season.
1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 171 Ye bitterns, till the quagmire reels, Rair for his sake.
1882 A. Jessopp in 19th Cent. May 734 The two male birds ‘roared and bellowed’ over their heads.
1883 C. Harpur Poems 78 Why roar the bull-frogs in the tea-tree marsh?
1913 Amer. Bee Jrnl. Dec. 413/3 I well remember how the bees roared.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Sept. x. 12 This is a region with..beetles that hiss like steam engines,..and frogs that roar, grunt, trill, hammer or whistle.
1992 T. Pratchett Lords & Ladies 26 The stems bent and broke, and lay down in a circle. The bees roared, and fled.
c. intransitive. Of a horse: to make a loud abnormal noise when breathing, esp. during exercise, typically due to disease of or damage to the larynx. Cf. roarer n.1 2, roaring n.1 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > wheeze
roar1842
whistle1898
1842 W. C. Spooner White's Compend. Vet. Art (ed. 17) 139 Some horses will roar in the trot.
1880 W. Day Racehorse in Training 40 At the Cape of Good Hope, I am told, horses never roar.
1889 Yorks. Post 25 Nov. 3/5 The tendency to roar is not a matter of heredity.
1915 Sunset Oct. 792/1 Early one forenoon all sixty horses roared lustily as we pulled up the last pitch in the steep side of a gulch.
2006 M. E. Derry Horses in Society xi. 212 No sound was heard when the animal was simply standing, but some horses roared with little movement.
2.
a. intransitive. Of a person, crowd, etc.: to utter a loud deep prolonged sound, typically whilst in a state of high emotion, such as anger, pain, excitement, etc.; to shout, yell. Also with out.Sometimes in similative use: to roar like a specified animal (cf. sense 1a).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > roar or bellow [verb (intransitive)]
bellowc1000
roarOE
routc1400
rummish?a1500
rerea1525
hurl1530
whurl1530
bullerc1550
broll1660
gurl1790
snore1823
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > roar or bellow
bellOE
roarOE
berec1225
routc1300
romya1325
lowa1382
roungec1390
roupa1425
din1508
roust1513
hurl1530
bellow1603
belvea1794
boo-hoo1825
α.
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 21 Oct. 236 Hwilum hy [sc. dioflu] him raredon on swa hryðro.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 451 Iuliene..bigon to beaten þen belial of helle, & he to rarin [L. clamabat] reowliche.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16104 (MED) Ne heres þou noght on ilk-a side hu þai apon þe rar [Trin. Cambr. on þe rore]?
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 7341 (MED) Þe devels obout þam þan in helle, On þam salle ever-mare rare and yhelle.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxvi. §1. 272 He that askis a nother thynge he is all in silence bifor god, þof he rowt and rare all day.
1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. 24 They..skreem'd, and raird beyond all ayme.
1717 A. Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood xi That a' the warld might hear the din Rair frae ilk head.
1809 T. Donaldson Poems 146 What maks ye thus to rant an' rair?
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Rair Whativver is he rairin there at?
?2002 I. W. D. Forde Hale ir Sindries ii. iv. 144 He rowstit an raired at the gaird fur no daein hiz dewtie.
β. c1300 St. Katherine (Laud) l. 238 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 99 (MED) Þo gan þe Aumperur for wrathþe loude ȝeolle and rore.c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2438 (MED) He bunden him ful swiþe faste..Þat he rorede als a bole.a1325 St. Oswald (Corpus Cambr.) l. 67 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 73 (MED) Wanne þis holyman hurde him [sc. the devil] so deoluoliche rore, Þe signe he made of þe crois.c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 15726 (MED) The stour was strong, the cry was gret, Thei rored grisly as it hadde ben net.a1450 York Plays (1885) 378 (MED) Why rooris þou soo, rebalde?1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 694/1 I roore, I yell, as a beest dothe.1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 263 You..roard for mercy, and stil run and roard. View more context for this quotation1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant xvii. 14 Th' afflicted..Roare to Heavens, unanswer'd, for reliefe.1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads vii. 105 But Priam had forbidden them to roar, Or cry outright, though grieved at their hearts.1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 37. ⁋4 This Sort of Fellows, who Roar instead of Speaking.1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 30 Then I cry'd, nay, I roar'd out, I was in such a Passion.1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxvi. 237 He seized me by the nose, which he tweaked so unmercifully that I roared with anguish.1835 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st Ser. viii. 62 He roared like a bull, till..Lucretia, one of the house helps, let him go.1896 ‘M. Field’ Attila iv. 106 Although the host of warriors roared and stamped Acclaimingly.1912 I. Bacheller in Cent. Mag. 62 731/2 The farmer had the blacksmith's thumb between his teeth, and the latter was roaring with pain.1968 U. K. Le Guin Wizard of Earthsea vi. 113 The ship's master roared out ragefully.1994 Guardian 12 Sept. ii. 3/1 He stretches his enormous frame into sub-balletic poses..as the crowd roars at his delts or pecs.
b. intransitive. To cry, weep, sob, esp. loudly. Chiefly Scottish in later use.
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) iv. 210 Seo dreorige moder..rarigende hi astrehte æt þæs halgan apostoles fotum.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 102 To Rayre [1483 BL Add. 89074 Rare] or grete, vagire.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xi. 26 All togidder gan to weip and rair.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 99 Rarand lyk ane ȝung barne or ane seik wyfe.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 92 v Dauid prayed lamenting and murning, I am afflicted,..I rarit for ye disquietnes of my hart.
1741 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1842) II. 14 Upon which Lady Margaret, that was in the next room, came in, and seeing her husband in that pickle, she roard and cryd, and was so frightened that her head turnd, and is since dilirious.
1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 76 The Babe roars.
a1843 J. Stewart Sketches Sc. Char. (1857) 175 Bairns wi' hunger rair.
c1880 W. G. Lyttle Paddy McQuillan 11 Puir fellow! A thocht a peety o' him. A'm shair he was roarin' fur he put his hankerchay up tae his face.
1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe 62 How the daughter..no sooner looked on the dead than broke down—‘and fair roared and grat when she saw him there’.
1973 P. O'Brian H.M.S. Surprise ix. 252 Little common babies, that mewl, pewl and roar all in that same tedious, deeply vulgar, self-centred monotone.
1996 W. G. McPherson in S. Stronach New Wirds 59 The Princess wis in an afa state, an roart an grat, an cried ti the aul Witch to fess the Prince back again.
c. intransitive. figurative and in personifications.
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c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 178 (MED) Thus did y so depart the feleship And gan me forth to my poor loggyng peke; But alle that nyght myn hert did rore & seke.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) x. 261 His hert rored in his beli for ioye.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 871 Confounded Chaos roard, And felt tenfold confusion in thir fall. View more context for this quotation
a1693 M. Bruce Soul-confirmation (1709) 12 God gave them upon the Finger ends, while all their Ribs Rared again.
1755 Connoisseur No. 83. ⁋8 To roughen the verse and make it roar again with reiteration of the letter R.
1764 J. Wilson Earl Douglas (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 32 No rest their tortur'd breasts can find: Detection flames, and vengeance roars behind.
1839 J. Galt Demon of Destiny iv. 24 Dark abysses, wherein fury roar'd, Mocking as drivel Niagara's roar.
1915 N.Y. Times Current Hist. European War 4 663/1 Business, roaring with pain, fell back into the Republican arms, and Bryan was defeated for President.
a1994 C. Bukowski What matters Most (1999) 99 The heart roars like a lion At what they've done to us.
3.
a. intransitive. Of a place: to echo with noise; to resound.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > resound [verb (intransitive)] > of places
ringa1350
sounda1400
resoundc1405
roarc1405
redounda1492
shout1513
braya1616
resonate1864
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2017 He broghte hym to the halle That roreth of the cryyng and the sown.
c1600 Club Law (1907) 77 It [sc. the town] roareth with fooleries.
1631 T. Dekker Penny-wise, Povnd Foolish sig. F2 Hee that was wont to make Tauernes roare with the noise of gallon pots.
1780 T. Dwight America 6 Lo! where deep forests roar with loud alarms.
1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 156/1 The youths that paint..a pilot-boat..breaking on a reef that seems to roar with the surf.
1918 C. E. Mulford Man from Bar-20 xviii. 236 The canyon roared and seemed to shudder as the crash boomed out.
1974 W. Condry Woodlands xiii. 134 The trees when in flower really roar with bees.
2003 Time Out N.Y. 8 May 74/4 This space roars with soulful house and dubbed-out beats at tonight's dance party.
b. intransitive. Of the sea, wind, fire, a gun, vehicle, etc.: to make a loud and usually prolonged noise.
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?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 6470 Ros a tempest rorand loude; myrk was þe skie, grete was þe cloude.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 1 (MED) Eolus..doþ þe windes rore.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 912 He com to a rowghe watir whych rored.
1570 R. Sempill Poysonit Schot (single sheet) Our cair may moue the stonis And hauie rockis to rair.
1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell iv. sig. Gv Does not the windes roare? the Sea roare? the Welkin roare?
1669 Earl of Winchelsea True Relation Mt. Ætna 24 On Friday,..the Mountain again roared with much loudness.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. 166 Hark! the Gates burst, the brazen Barriers roar!
1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 223 I caused the fire to be gradually encreased till it roared again in the furnace.
1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry I. 213 The thunders roar, and the voice of winds tells of this unatonable vengeance.
1852 G. Daniel Democritus in London vi. 86 The guns all prittled, prattled, And the cannons roar'd and rattled.
1890 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea II. xxxiv. 130 A rock-splintered river roared and howled..below.
1941 T. Kitching Diary 8 Dec. in Life & Death in Changi (1998) ii. 6 We all awake, sirens are wailing, planes are roaring.
1978 A. S. Byatt Virgin in Garden i. v. 50 Daniel pushed a shilling into the gas meter, and lit his fire, an old Sunbeam which roared and spat in uneasy bursts.
2003 R. MacFarlane Mountains of Mind (2004) iv. 118 Rivers of green meltwater roar and bluster around the base of the dunes.
c. In Curling: (of a stone) to move across the ice at great speed, making a loud noise; (of a player) to slide a stone at great speed (cf. roaring game n. at roaring adj. and adv. Compounds). Frequently with up.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > curl [verb (intransitive)] > actions
roar1787
wick1811
outwick1830
port1831
rebut1831
to fill the ice1867
guard1878
slide1936
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 150 To guard, or draw, or wick a bore, Or up the rink like Jehu roar.
1805 G. McIndoe Poems & Songs 55 Ye're well set on man, but ye're roaran, Whatna way's that to play a forehan'?
1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 38 Roaring up the rink he flies, The guarded tee to clear.
a1899 J. Broom in R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1899) p. xl The blue gleaming squares of cleared ice, upon which the merry stones roared.
1951 Scots Mag. Jan. 301 The stones roar up the slide. Strange words and terms sound in the air... ‘Try an ootwick.’
1994 D. McLean Blackden 189 I stamped my feet, glancing across the rink to where the three other games were still in progress, with stones roaring along.
d. intransitive. Of breath, gas, etc.: to make a loud noise as it escapes. Also with away, out, etc.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > break wind [verb (intransitive)]
fartOE
fistc1440
to let a scape1549
to break wind1552
crepitate1623
crack1653
poop1689
roar1897
poot1940
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 969 His appetite was bad, his breathing was short, wind would occasionally ‘roar away’ and then the distension lessened.
1921 R. Graves Pier-glass 26 The deep in-breath, The breath roaring out.
1942 National Geographic Mag. June 741/1 In the hollow formed by scarified hills the malodorous vapors of brimstone rise, and jets of steam roar like the opened safety valve of some giant locomotive.
1992 Harper's Mag. Apr. 63/1 On October 23, 1989, 85,000 pounds of process gases roared through the..chemical complex in Pasadena.
4. intransitive. To behave in a lively and noisy manner, typically whilst in a state of intoxication; to revel. Also occasionally figurative. Cf. roaring adj. 3a, roaring drunk at roaring adv. 1a. Now rare.Also transitive in to roar it.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > in revelry
roara1450
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous
revelc1390
ragea1400
roara1450
jet?1518
tirl on the berry?1520
roist1563
roist1574
revel1580
domineer1592
ranta1616
roister1663
scour1673
tory-rory1685
scheme1738
to run the rig1750
gilravagea1760
splore?a1799
spree1859
to go on the (or a) bend1863
to flare up1869
to whoop it up1873
to paint the town (red)1882
razzle1908
to make whoopee1920
boogie1929
to beat it up1933
ball1946
rave1961
a1450 York Plays (1885) 276 (MED) Loke þat no man nor no myron of myne With no noyse be neghand me nere..What rebalde þat redely will rore, I schall mete with þat myron to-morne.
1584 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao ii. iii. 108 To th' Tap-house then lets gang, and rore.
1629 T. Dekker Londons Tempe 215 The Gallant Roares,—Roarers drinke oathes and gall.
1632 Lyly's Gallathea (new ed.) in Sixe Court Comedies sig. P10v What shall wee doe being toss'd to shore? Milke some blinde Tauerne, and (there) roare.
c1670 in Roxburghe Ballads (1890) VII. 37 We rant and rore it, night and day, we spend and never spare.
1758 D. Garrick Gamesters iii. i. 36 Can he drink, dice, roar, rake and royster?
1761 C. Churchill Apol. 14 If they in cellar or in garret roar.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iv. 157 These have nothing to do but..to riot it, to roar it.
1823 Ld. Byron Age of Bronze xiv. 30 They roared, they dined, they drank.
1849 H. Melville Mardi in Littell's Living Age 28 Apr. 186/2 Mad and crazy revellers, how ye drank and roared!
1893 J. K. Snowden Tales Yorks. Wolds 124 He and a company of stout carousers came roaring home from Glusburn.
1913 G. K. Chesterton Victorian Age in Lit. (1914) i. 15 Our greatest bards and sages have often shown a tendency to rant it and roar it like true British sailors.
2001 J. Gough Juno & Juliet ii. xxviii. 98 They used to roar it, rolling home drunk together at half two in the morning after an evening in Connollys Bar.
5.
a. transitive. To utter or express (something) loudly; to state boldly; to shout out. Frequently with direct speech or that-clause as object. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > roar or bellow
roarc1450
lowa1547
bellow1583
bell1596
rebellow?1611
rout1807
c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 219 (MED) Mi bollid hert doth so his sikis rore That mawgre me hit doth my wele biwray.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 58 (MED) Houndis and woluis roryn þe psalmis, os were woluis criyng ilk to oþer.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1367/2 The popes bull hath roared it so to be.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 33 They..neuer leaue roaring it out..of the freedomes and immunities soursing from him.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. i. 40 That..makes him rore these Accusations forth. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 7 Long before this time, she had roared it even into the ears of deaf men.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 279 Nor will they themselves disdain to take up a Tabor and Roar out a Song.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 78 He shall roar forth Death and Destruction about the hoisting of a Water-cask.
1756 A. Murphy Apprentice ii. 21 (stage direct.) The Spouting-Club, the Members seated and roaring out ‘Bravo’.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xix. 258 What time, the many, that unruly beast Roars its rough Joy.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxxii. 320 ‘Oh, never mind,’ Bungay roared out with a great laugh.
1878 Ld. Tennyson Revenge v Sir Richard spoke,..and we roar'd a hurrah.
1911 W. R. Thayer Life & Times Cavour II. xxx. 301 Garibaldi jumped to his feet and roared that the time for humble petitions had passed.
1978 Washington Post 8 Dec. (Weekend section) 38/1 The crowded auditorium roars its gratitude and approval.
2001 B. K. Das tr. P. Ray Primal Land lxxxix. 259 ‘Now sing!’ someone in the crowd roared out.
b. transitive. With complement: to bring (a person or occasionally a thing) into a specified state or condition by roaring.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > roar or bellow [verb (transitive)]
roara1616
bellow1709
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > roar or bellow > render by
roara1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 100 At his Nurses teares He whin'd and roar'd away your Victory. View more context for this quotation
1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell iv. sig. G2 Weele Roare the rusty Rascall out of his Tobacco.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. i. 72 [He] roars up Symon frae his kindly Rest.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 142 He [sc. Johnson] will not hear you, and having a louder voice than you, must roar you down.
1848 J. S. Smith Mirabeau iv. ii. 209 His..resounding voice roared them into silence; and they ended applauding.
1870 J. H. L. Hesekiel Life Bismarck 208 Johanna does not like to give the boy the breast, and he roars himself blue.
1921 J. Farnol Martin Conisby's Vengeance xviii. 160 Tressady..perceiving..his fellows inclined for slumber, roared them to wakefulness.
1945 N. Coward Diary 8 May (2000) 29 The King and Queen came out on the balcony, looking enchanting. We all roared ourselves hoarse.
1992 R. Hogan & R. Burnham Years O'Casey vi. 312 Mrs. Skeffington roars herself into the position of a dramatic critic.
c. transitive. With adverbial complement, esp. in to roar on. To encourage or support with loud shouts, cheering, etc.
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1900 L. Creswicke S. Afr. & Transvaal War II. i. 24 Their officers..cheered and roared them up the precipitous ascent.
1932 J. Stevens Saginaw Paul Bunyan viii. 109 Their hearts thumped and the hair on their chests stiffened valiantly as the Big Feller roared them on.
1960 Times 24 May 18/6 The Frenchman was to serve and with the wildly excited crowd roaring him home it looked all over.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 June d1 With a fanatical crowd of 41,000 roaring them on, the Argentinians roared past Peru, 6-0, at Rosario.
1988 S. Donald Prickly Heat in K. Harwood First Run (1989) vi. 35 The crowd get to their feet to roar him on.
2007 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 2 July 52 Fallon was roared into the winner's enclosure following his first Irish Group One success since returning from a six-month riding ban.
d. transitive. Australian slang. With up. To reprimand severely; to shout abuse at.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > scold
chidec1230
ban1340
tongue1388
rate1393
flite14..
rehetec1400
janglec1430
chafec1485
rattle1542
berate1548
quarrel1587
hazen?1608
bequarrel1624
huff1674
shrewa1687
to claw away, off1692
tongue-pad1707
to blow up1710
scold1718
rag1739
redd1776
bullyraga1790
jaw1810
targe1825
haze1829
overhaul1840
tongue-walk1841
trim1882
to call down1883
tongue-lash1887
roar1917
to go off at (a person)1941
chew1948
wrinch2009
1917 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) 13 July 3/6 Mag will roar me up if I get back without a settlement.
1947 N. Lindsay Halfway to Anywhere 69 Bill was able to roar him up, anyway, for having the blinkin' cheek to come shoving his nose into Bill's affairs.
1979 R. Duffield Rogue Bull 194 I generally don't roar people up who are working for me.
2006 P. Carey Theft (2007) x. 61 He roared me up for getting my new shirt dirty.
6. intransitive. To laugh loudly and without restraint; to shout with laughter.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh loudly or coarsely
kenchc1225
fleer1553
checkle1627
roar1689
guffaw1721
horse-laugh1763
cachinnate1824
snort1825
haw-haw1833
yaw-haw1836
to laugh like a drain1948
1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair 29 There was such a Laughing, they Roar'd out again.
1696 C. Cibber Love's Last Shift 96 I..bore it with as unmov'd a Countenance as Tom Worthy does a thundering Jest in a Comedy when the whole House roars at it.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. 145 The whole circle roared with laughter.
1815 B. Wynne Diary 28 July (1940) III. xii. 378 The Girls, who roared the whole way, laughing at the odd vehicle.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton iii. 20 The whole party were roaring with laughter.
1893 Idler 410 I read ‘Robert Elsmere’ and roared over it.
1919 T. S. Eliot Let. 3 Sept. (1988) I. 328 He roared with amusement, and waved to me as he drove off.
1961 Ebony Apr. 92/2 Comic Nipsey Russell..kept the audience roaring during the intervals.
2004 Newsweek 27 Sept. 38/2 North Koreans roared at the jokes and gasped at the love scenes.
7.
a. intransitive. Of a vehicle, etc.: to move at high speed making a loud prolonged sound; (of a person) to travel in a vehicle moving in this manner; to drive fast. In extended use: (of a person or animal) to move rapidly. Also figurative. Frequently with adverb, as away, off, etc.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle > in noisy motor vehicle
roar1816
teuf-teuf1902
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 147 The ship..went roaring through the waves.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Mrs. Perkins's Ball 43 Lady Jane Ranville's great coach had roared away down the streets long before.
1854 S. Sidney Gallops & Gossips Bush of Austral. ix. 157 The train roared away like a monstrous rocket.
1923 Motor Cycling 26 Sept. 658/3 Marsden roared through on his last lap.
1941 Amer. Boy Feb. 26/2 Murray took the puck..and came roaring out, angular legs working.
1951 Amer. Speech 26 230/2 Wesleyan roars to victory.
1970 P. Laurie Scotl. Yard iii. 69 The one getting in slams the door and roars off, nearly running my mate over.
1987 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 31 Oct. Share prices roared higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, gaining more than 730 yen and wiping out the previous day's losses.
2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 84 You'll hear him cursing you out the cab window before the lorry roars away up the street.
b. transitive. To rev (an engine) loudly; to drive (a vehicle) quickly, and (usually) with a loud engine noise.
ΚΠ
1923 H. A. Franck Wandering Northern China xx. 371 Having roared the engine almost out from under its hood, as the only antidote suggesting itself to him, he sat supinely back in his seat.
1937 Modesto (Calif.) Bee & News-Herald 30 May 7/7 Wilber..roared his car around the mile lap in 45.05 seconds.
1956 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 1 Aug. b27/1 The boys roared their get-away car down Maitland.
1985 C. Phillips Final Passage 65 Michael announced his arrival by roaring the engine of his new bike.
2001 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 18 Feb. 11 Police officers smiled and waved as he roared the vehicle the wrong way on Broadway.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

roarv.2

Brit. /rɔː/, U.S. /rɔr/
Origin: Probably either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or perhaps (ii) a borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: rore v.; Dutch roeren.
Etymology: Probably either a specific use of rore v. (although this word is not otherwise attested after the 16th cent.), or perhaps directly < its etymon Dutch roeren. Compare earlier (in slightly different sense) roarer n.2 and roaring n.2The author of quot. 1902 explains the origin differently; the quot. continues: ‘Melia loved metaphor, and “to roar in or roar out” anything meant a hurried, impetuous action, a simulating indeed of the wind in its fury’, i.e. assuming metaphorical use of roar v.1
English regional (Suffolk). rare.
transitive. To turn out quickly.
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1902 M. B. Betham-Edwards Mock Beggars' Hall 150 Come along, Jimmy, and help me to roar out the bread.
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