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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1818

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†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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