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語源

By surface analysis, roar +‎ -ing.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɔːɹɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: roar‧ing

形容詞

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.

   • 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 46:

     Things looked bleak until Gutenberg had a moment of inspiration that not only solved his problem but also got the Renaissance off to a roaring start and simultaneously created of the pornography industry as we know it today.

   • 2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 35:45 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned‎, 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 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.

動詞

roaring

1. present participle and gerund of roar

名詞

roaring (countable and uncountable, plural roarings)

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

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