roaring
noun
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L326871 on Wikidata ↗adverb
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L333603 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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L340024 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/
adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, roar + -ing.
- Intensive; extreme.
““[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]””
- Very successful; lively.
“The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.”
“But finally we came to a river with hundreds of boats upon it, and there was a magnificent bridge, and on the other bank was a roaring city, and through the fog the rain came down thick as the tears of the angels. "That 's London," said I.”
noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, roar + -ing.
- A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
“[…] those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.”
- An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.
verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, roar + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of roar