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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

†RORATORY, adj. Noisy, uproarious.Lnk. 1818 A. Fordyce Country Wedding 200:
Who that joins the jovial noise, Of friendship's roratory boys.

[A variant of Eng. dial. rory-tory, id., recorded from the late 19th-c., a reversed form of earlier tory-rory, of doubtful orig. but no doubt to be associated with roar. Cf. Roarie.]

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