roustn.1
/raʊst/, U.S. /raʊst/, Scottish English /rʌʊst/ Scottish in later use. Now rare.
A voice; a shout, a roar; a loud noise. Cf. rout n.3
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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-
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9197 Þe rowwst iss herrd off ænne mann Þatt epeþþ þuss i wesste.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 488 Anec[t]anabus..drafe thurȝe þe sale With slike a rowste & rerid.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 67 The feildis all doith of thar roustis resound.
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander (1974) 13353 With that he gaif ane roust..That all the ost on fer mycht here the ȝell.
1804 W. Tarras Poems 93 Horse-Jockies thro’ the Shoo-gate rant, Wi' monie a roust an' rair.
1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 34 To ilk bellow, roust and roar.
1928 H. W. Duncan in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Rowst [Aberdeenshire] Heard in connection with a foghorn: ‘Sic a rowst’.
1985 D. Purves MacCodrum o Selkies (SCOTS) Juist as he set his fuit owre the houss-dure the wund gied a byordnar roust, an the dure clasht tae.
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roustn.2
/raʊst/, U.S. /raʊst/ U.S. Criminals' slang and Police slang.
1. The action of jostling a person in order to pick his or her pocket. Cf. roust v.2 3b. rare.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > [noun] > distracting victim
stalling1908
roust1942
rousting1942
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §490/5 Roust, rousting, rowdy-dowdy, the act of causing a crush in a crowd or jostling the victim in order to pick his pockets.
2. An act of harassment or assault, esp. by the police; a police raid; an arrest; a ‘bust’. Cf. roust v.2 3a.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > police raid
raid1892
bust1938
roust1951
rousting1957
take-down1988
1951 W. W. Haines & W. R. Burnett Racket 139 Alibi? What is all this, Tom? A routine roust?
1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp viii. 172 Mister, all your nephew had to do to beat the roust was mention a name.
1978 R. Thomas Chinaman's Chance xxiii. 234 ‘I'm..your friendly, conscientious chief of police.’ Wu nodded slowly. ‘And this is a roust, huh?’
1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere iv. 39 The shots were from his second reefer roust: LAPD 4/16/44 on a mugboard hanging around his neck.
1993 J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 114 The customers, usually resigned to such regular rousts, fought back.
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roustv.1
/raʊst/, U.S. /raʊst/, Scottish English /rʌʊst/ Scottish. Now rare.
intransitive. To shout, bellow, roar; to make a loud noise.
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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
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. vi. 79 As Pharon cryis and dois rowst Wyth haltand wordis.
a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander (1974) 14294 With that he rustit with an felloun bere.
1746 Lyon in Mourning (1895) II. 220 Ground your arms and rowst no more.
1801 W. Beattie Fruits of Time 40 I hear the stirkies roustin.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 119 He had a trumpet braw, Whairwi' he 'gan to roust and blaw.
1879 J. Guthrie Select. Poems & Songs 25 The cattle roustin' at the style's nae richt.
1910 N.E.D. at Roust Dinna roust an' roar like that.
?2002 I. W. D. Forde Hale ir Sindries ii. iv. 144 He rowstit an raired at the gaird fur no daein hiz dewtie.
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roustv.2
/raʊst/, U.S. /raʊst/ 1.
a. transitive. To rout, turn, or drive (a person or animal) out of a place; to get (a person) out of bed; to rouse, awaken. Also: to stir up. Frequently with out, up.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)]
unteeOE
to take out of ——c1175
forthdraw?a1300
out-takea1350
to take outa1382
excludec1400
dischargec1405
to get outc1432
tryc1440
extraya1450
out-have1458
to take fortha1550
extract1570
reave1640
eliciate1651
roust1658
uncork1740
to put out of ——1779
to break out1840
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up
stirc1000
aweccheOE
stirc1175
arear?c1225
awakec1315
amovec1330
araisec1374
wake1398
wakenc1400
to stir upa1500
incend?1504
to firk upc1540
bestir1549
store1552
bustlea1555
tickle1567
solicitate1568
to stir one's taila1572
exsuscitate1574
rouse1574
suscitate1598
accite1600
actuate1603
arousea1616
poach1632
roust1658
to shake up1850
to galvanize to or into life1853
to make things (or something specified) hum1884
to jack up1914
rev1945
1658 D. Lupton Flanders 9 Who will..ere long roust them out of this Hole, and make them look out another kennel.
1869 A. de Fonblanque Cut Adrift I. iv. 54 You go to bed all right, and the next morning you're rousted up by a tellegrammer..as gives you to understand that half the world is topsy turvy!
1890 H. M. Stanley In Darkest Afr. I. xiii. 333 They were thoroughly rousted out, and their camps were destroyed.
1901 R. Buchanan Compl. Poet. Wks. 151 To keep a look-out for steamers and rowst the lockmen.
1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 146 Rise and shine!, the boatswains' mates' call to The Hands to roust them out in the morning.
1972 E. Wigginton Foxfire Bk. 169 You get up and roust up your fire.
1986 Horse & Hound 18 Apr. 26/3 Hounds..took 10 min. to roust him out of the thick.
2002 Field & Stream Oct. 106/1 We were rousted out of warm, cozy beds well before daylight and convoyed down snowy gravel roads.
b. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. To rouse or stir oneself; to get up, rise. Chiefly with out. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > bestir oneself
arisec825
to start upc1275
stirc1275
shifta1400
awakea1450
to put out one's fins?1461
wake1523
to shake one's ears1580
rouse1589
bestira1616
awaken1768
arouse1822
waken1825
to wake snakes1835
roust1841
to flax round1884
to get busy1896
to get one's arse in gear1948
1841 N.Y. Herald 25 Aug. 1/3 I roust out, fixed myself, got breakfast, [etc.].
1873 M. Ward Mormon Wife xiv. 138 Oh, you've rousted have you, old boy?.. I begun to think that you were sleeping your last.
1891 D. Jordan On Surrey Hills 62 Roost up all on you! There's a crawler handy.
1912 R. A. Wason Friar Tuck viii. 81 I knew it was my duty to roust out an' keep Horace from gettin' more sleep'n my treatment for his nerves called for.
2. Originally and chiefly U.S.
a. transitive. With up, out. To search out; to get hold of; to find by rummaging. Cf. rout v.9 2b, root v.2 3a.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search about for
to search out?a1400
to look about1536
to feel after ——?1557
study1561
to feel for ——1569
to look out for1578
to lay out1624
to look round1630
to lay about1755
prospect1854
roust1870
to look around1927
1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Morning Republican (Little Rock, Arkansas) 4 Nov. Now you know a fellow couldn't roust out such a gaily thing as that in a little country town like this.
1871 J. Hay Little Breeches 12 We rousted up some torches, And sarched for 'em far and near.
1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide vi. 115 Roust out that bottle and heave it overboard.
1958 J. Kerouac Dharma Bums vi. 45 The port was a strange request in the whisky country of hunters but the bartender rousted up an odd bottle.
2004 ‘J. Rollins’ Sandstorm xii. 222 Do you think you could sell the stallion and quickly roust up some weapons and avehicle that could carry us?
b. intransitive. With about, around. To search around; to root about; to rummage.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > rummage or search thoroughly
ransackc1405
range1553
rig1565
rake1574
mouse1575
ferret1580
spoacha1585
rummage1625
scrimmage1843
fossick1871
roust1919
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > poke about or grub
prog1579
rout1711
grub1800
ratch1801
root1831
fossick1853
rootle1854
scrounge1909
roust1919
1919 F. Rolt-Wheeler Boy with U.S. Trappers vii. 211 The boy rousted about to find some bread.
1942 P. G. Wodehouse Money in Bank iii. 27 I've just caught him rousting around in my room.
1958 J. Kerouac Dharma Bums x. 72 I rousted about and got a lot of little pieces of wood to make kindling for the fire.
2001 J. Monninger Barn in New Eng. 149 D Dog rousted around the edge of the pallets, sniffing at the possibilities.
3. North American slang.
a. transitive. Chiefly Criminals' slang and Police slang. Esp. of a police officer: to harass, assault (a person) (also with around); to arrest. Also: to raid (a place).
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > treat violently [verb (transitive)] > treat violently or roughly > specifically of police
roust1903
1903 B. Brandenberg Imported Amer. xvii. 214 I get so sick handling these dirty bums coming over here to this country, I 'm going to get in trouble some time for rousting 'em.
1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) v. 68 I can't take this kind of heat. I can't take being rousted and hurt.
1986 New Yorker 3 Nov. 111/1 The police brought in helicopters and rousted every house in the vicinity.
2008 C. J. Box Blood Trail 237 We rousted an innocent man who turns out to have an alibi, and we look like idiots and could face a civil suit.
b. intransitive. Criminals' slang. To jostle (a person) in order to pick his or her pocket.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > pick pockets [verb (intransitive)] > act as distraction
stall1839
roust1904
1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 252/1 Roust, to jostle.
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang (at cited word) ‘Roust!!’ ‘Jostle the victim rudely, but in a seemingly unconscious manner.’
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §490/12 Roust,..to cause a crush in a crowd or jostle the victim in order to pick his pockets.
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roustv.3
/raʊst/, U.S. /raʊst/, Australian English /ræɔst/, New Zealand English /ræust/ New Zealand and Australian colloquial.
intransitive. To express displeasure or disagreement vehemently; to scold, reprove; to shout at a person. Also with on. Also transitive. Cf. rouse v.4
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)] > scold
scold1377
chide1393
channerc1480
ratea1529
chowre1567
flite1568
to scold it outa1592
to speak or look daggers1603
snub1694
to read the Riot Act1784
row1843
rouse1896
roust1901
to bust (a person's) balls1946
to bust on1961
1901 Star (Christchurch, N.Z.) 19 June 4/2 He did not submit and nurse his grievance, but promptly ‘rousted’ with all his might.
1904 L. M. P. Archer Bush Honeymoon 113 I was to go lightly on it, and bring it back in good repair, if I didn't wanted to be rousted on about it.
1910 Bulletin (Sydney) 30 June 39/2 ‘Me mother's the one,’ said Peter. ‘How does she roust.’ The small girls old Aunt Johnson, it appeared, also rousted.
1941 S. Campion Mo Burdekin 139 And 'avin 'im roust hell outa me for it.
1960 N. Cato Green grows Vine 17 He wouldn't roust at you, anyways: he likes the girls.
2009 Gold Coast Bull. (Nexis) 3 Mar. 12 How refreshing it would be to see the politicians on the front foot, rousting hecklers and inspiring the voters.
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