OriginFrom Middle English rosen (“to boast”), from Old Norse hrósa (“to boast; praise”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōþsōną, from *hrōþaz, *hrōþiz (“fame; glory; praise”). Cognate with Icelandic hrósa, Danish rose, Swedish rosa.
- Scotland, dialectalTo flatter or praise.
“Ha'e na ye roosed my cheeks like the morning? Ha'e na ye roosed my cherry-red mou?”
“He roosed my e'en, sae bonnie blue, He roosed my waist sae genty sma' And aye my heart came to my mou' When ne'er a body heard or saw.”
“For some of them ha'e roosed their hawks, And some other their hounds; And some other their ladies fair, As the roosing went the rounds.”
- Scotland, dialectalTo be proud.
“I'll cock my nose aboon them a' — I'm roosed by Craigengillan !”
“A'm roosed — a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid, ye ken, when ye tell me a canna gaff a fusshe ! Tak aff yere coat, mon, for a'm roosed to deeds o' bluid.”
“Mrs. Tam, like all decent people in the village, was "real roosed."”
- countable, uncountableA surname.
- countable, uncountableAn eastern suburb of Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD2269).
Formsrooses(present, singular, third-person) · roosing(participle, present) · roosed(participle, past) · roosed(past) · ruse(alternative) · ruis(alternative) · Rooses(plural)