roes

• Rhymes: -əʊz

roes

1. plural of roe

• Rose, reos, 'orse, REOs, eors, orse, ores, öres, rose, sore, Reos, EORs, sero-, eros, Eros, rosé, EROS

Etymology uncertain. Earliest documentation with its current meaning from 1622. Van der Sijs claims it's a loanword from Low German, whereas de Vries claims it's related to Middle Dutch rūsen (causing commotion), from which also stems geroezemoes.

Compare also German Rausch.

• IPA^(key): /rus/

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• Hyphenation: roes
• Rhymes: -us

roes m (plural roezen, diminutive roesje n)

1. intoxication
2. haze

   bij den roes ― hastily or unheedingly

3. high

• "roes" in: Sijs, Nicoline van der, Chronologisch woordenboek. De ouderdom en herkomst van onze woorden en betekenissen, 2e druk, Amsterdam / Antwerpen: Veen, 2002; op website dbnl.org;
• roes on etymologiebank.nl

roes

1. second-person singular present indicative of roer

roes

1. passive form of roe

roes

1. second-person singular present indicative of roer