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roister
verb (used without object)
to act in a swaggering, boisterous, or uproarious manner.
More about roister
The English verb roister, 鈥渢o act boisterously; to revel without restraint,鈥� started life as a noun meaning 鈥渘oisy bully鈥� (now roisterer), from Middle French rustre, ru(i)stre 鈥渞uffian, boor, lout,鈥� from the adjective ruste 鈥渞ude, rough,鈥� from the Latin adjective rusticus 鈥渞ural, rustic.鈥� Roister entered English in the 16th century.
how is roister used?
Haerlem, Schiedam and Olifant were the ships, and they tied up so that their sailors could roister ashore, and large fights broke out because sailors from the first two ships, which bore honorable names, began to tease those. from the Olifant, Dutch for elephant.
Their tails had become sticky with pine sap, then got knotted together as the squirrels roistered around.
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newfangled
adjective
of a new kind or fashion.
More about newfangled
Newfangled comes from Middle English new– 鈥渘ew,鈥� –fangel, –fangol, an otherwise unrecorded adjective suffix meaning 鈥渢aken, inclined to take,鈥� and the adjective suffix –ed, the entire adjective meaning 鈥渢aken by the new, inclined to the new.鈥� The element –fangel, –fangol most likely is from the same root as the British dialect verb fang 鈥渢o seize, grab鈥� and the standard English noun fang 鈥渃anine tooth鈥� (that is, 鈥渢he seizer”), all from fang-, the stem of the Old English verb 蹿艒苍 鈥渢o take.鈥� Newfangled entered English at the end of the 15th century.
how is newfangled used?
Both the floss and the AI toothbrush had surprised me. … But they had also sparked a desire for the potentially unnecessary, as newfangled things are prone to do.
YouTube was less than two years old鈥擩ustin Bieber had not yet been discovered there鈥攁nd still resembled a newfangled version of 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Funniest Home Videos.鈥�
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discommode
verb (used with object)
to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
More about discommode
Discommode, 鈥渢o cause inconvenience or trouble to,鈥� comes from Middle French discommoder, a compound formed from the Latin prefix dis– 鈥渁part, away,鈥� here with a privative or negative force, and the French adjective commode 鈥渃onvenient, easy,鈥� from Latin commodus 鈥渙f standard size or weight, suitable, convenient.鈥� Commodus is a compound of the Latin prefix com-, here with the intensive force 鈥渃ompletely,鈥� and the noun modus, 鈥渕easured amount, size, or quantity.鈥� Discommode entered English in the second half of the 17th century.
how is discommode used?
I decided not to discommode him further on walks by abruptly bringing him out into the same car-whizzing streets that had so shivered and terrified him, so when we went outside it was through the back door into a warren of unthreatening urban alleyways.
鈥淲e didn’t know we were discommoding you so.鈥� Norma liked that word and she said it over under her breath. 鈥�Discommode 鈥擨 wouldn’t want to discommode you, Mr. Gable, but I think you should know…”
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