roary
/ˈrɔːri/(also roarie, rory, rorie)
adjective
1That roars; loud, noisy, roaring.
- In early use with punning allusion to tory-rory; later chiefly Scottish, or as a child's word..
2 Scottish. Of clothing, etc.: bright, showy, ‘loud’.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Edmund Hickeringill (d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist. From roar + -y. Compare slightly later rory-tory.
- monospecificity
- monosperm
- monospermal
- monospermic
- monospermous
- monospermy
- monospherical
- monosporangiate
- monosporangium
- monospore
- monosporidial
- monosporous
- monostable
- monostachyous
- monostatic
- monostearin
- monostelic
- monostich
- monostichous
- monostomatous
- monostome
- monostrophic
- monostylous
- monosubstituted
- monosubstitution