carouser

English

Etymology

carouse +‎ -er

Noun

carouser (plural carousers)

A person who carouses; a reveller.
- 1836, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life:
  Equally persuaded I am that he was in the habit of receiving, in early youth, certain dicteria — perchance odd heads and tails of rhyming ballads — from some hoary headed sage who had been a carouser at the "merrie court" of James V. of Scotland.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:drunkard

Translations

one who carouses

Latin: cōmīssātor m
Polish: bibosz m (archaic), hulaka (pl) m or f

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