roose

verb

1. (Scotland, dialectal)To 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.”

   “You will have seen how a' the newspapers roosed the skatin o' an offisher, that they said lived in the Castle.”

   “I suld ha'e said ' Ye're a' that's guid,' I suld ha'e sung, ' Ye're a' that's bonnie,' I suld ha'e roosed your race an' bluid — O' a' the three I've ne'er dune ony.”

2. (Scotland, dialectal)To 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."”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)An eastern suburb of Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD2269).