roar /rōr or rör/

1. To make a full, loud, hoarse, low-pitched sound, as a lion, fire, wind, the sea, cannon, etc
2. To bellow
3. To bawl
4. To guffaw
5. (of a diseased horse) to take in breath with a loud noise
6. To behave in a riotous, bullying, noisy manner (obsolete)
7. To rush forward with loud noise from the engine

1. To utter vociferously
2. To shout (encouragement, abuse, etc)
3. To encourage by shouting (esp with on)

A sound of roaring

roarˈer noun

1. A person who roars
2. A horse that roars as a result of disease
3. A roaring boy (obsolete)

roarˈing noun

1. The action of the verb in any sense
2. A disease of horses marked by roaring

1. Uttering or emitting roars
2. Riotous
3. Proceeding with very great activity or success

roarˈingly adverb

roarˈy or roarˈie adjective (Scot)

1. Noisy
2. Garish, too bright

roaring boy noun (obsolete)

A boisterous bullying reveller, swaggerer or brawler

roaring drunk adjective

Very drunk (and typically rowdy)

roaring forties see under forty

do a roaring trade

To do very brisk and profitable business

the roaring game

Curling

• laird
• lairds
• lairdship
• lairdships
• laired
• laired up
• lairier
• lairiest
• lairing
• lairise
• lairised
• lairises
• lairising
• lairize
• lairized
• lairizes
• lairizing
• lairs
• lairy
• laisse
• laisser-aller
• laisser-faire
• laisses
• laissez-aller
• laissez-faire