Roister

 WORD OF THE DAY

roister / verb / ROY-ster

Definition
1a (archaic): one that roisters
1b: roisterer
2a: to engage in noisy revelry
2b: carouse

Examples
The earl's wastrel son had spent the best part of his youth roistering and gambling

One of his sons, Thomas (Dean-Charles Chapman), though hardly old enough to be in long pants, wears shining armor, while the other son, Hal (Timothée Chalamet), is a slouch who wastes his life in roistering.
— Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2019

Did You Know
As British writer Hugo Williams asserted in The Times Literary Supplement (November 15, 1991), roistering tends to be "funnier, sillier and less harmful than standard hooliganism, being based on nonsense rather than violence."
Boisterous roisterers might be chagrined to learn that the word roister derives from a Middle French word that means "lout" or "boor," rustre.
Ultimately, however, it is from the fairly neutral Latin word rusticus, meaning "rural."
In the 16th century, the original English verb was simply roist, and one who roisted was a roister.
Later, we changed the verb to roister and the corresponding noun to roisterer.