roaring

English

Alternative forms

• roarin'

Etymology

By surface analysis, roar +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
• Hyphenation: roar‧ing

Adjective

roaring

1. (informal) Intensive; extreme.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     “ […] 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. […] ”

2. Very successful; lively.

   Synonyms: thriving, prosperous, bustling; see also Thesaurus:prosperous

   The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.

   • 1903, Robert Barr, chapter 17, in The O'Ruddy:

     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.

   • 2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 35:45 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 December 2022:

     Some of the worst offenders were rounded up and sent home as Rozhestvensky's health began to recover. But this further diminished the fleet's manpower. And, at the same time, many of the officers were quite-happily unaware that anything was going on, having discovered that Madagascar did a roaring trade in various high-strength drugs. One officer had brought^{[sic – meaning bought?]} 2,000 cigarettes, and they were found to all be filled with opium, much to the joy of all those who could get their hands on them before they were confiscated.

Verb

roaring

1. present participle and gerund of roar

Noun

roaring (countable and uncountable, plural roarings)

1. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXVI, page 56:

     […] those wild eyes that watch the wave
     In roarings round the coral reef.

2. An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.

Derived terms

• die roaring
• hell-roaring
• rip-roaring
• roaring boy
• roaring cat
• roaring drunk
• Roaring Fork River
• roaring forties
• roaring game
• roaringly
• Roaring Meg
• roaring on
• roaring success
• Roaring Twenties

 

Translations

a loud, deep, prolonged sound

• Bulgarian: рев (bg) (rev)
• German: Gebrüll (de) n
• Greek: βρυχηθμός (el) (vrychithmós), ουρλιαχτό (el) (ourliachtó), ροχαλητό (el) (rochalitó), κραυγή (el) (kravgí), φωνή θηρίου (foní thiríou), φλοίσβος (el) (floísvos), μούγκρισμα (el) (moúgkrisma), ουρλιαχτό ζώου (ourliachtó zóou), βουητό (el) (vouitó), βοή (el) (voḯ), γέλιο (el) (gélio), βράχνιασμα (el) (vráchniasma)

  Ancient: βρυχηθμός m (brukhēthmós)

• Macedonian: рикање n (rikanje)
• Malayalam: ഗർജനം (ml) (gaṟjanaṁ), അലർച്ച (alaṟcca)