• RANICKY
n. a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam …1916 Amer. dial.
• RANI-CUM-BOOGERIE
n. a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam …1945 Amer. dial.
• RANIKABOO
n. a deceptive story or scheme; a caper, a prank; ‘monkeyshine’; nonsense; irrelevant, irritating activity …L19 Amer. sl.
• RANINE
adj. pert. to a frog; frog-like …1840 rare
• RANISH
adj. rash, giddy, rough; furious, violent …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANIVOROUS
adj. frog-eating …1821
• RANK
adj. 1. proud, high-minded, haughty; froward, rebellious …c1000 obs.
adj. 2. full-grown; mature …c1000 obs. rare
adj. 3. stout and strong; formidable …c1122 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adj. 4. having great speed or force; swift; impetuous; violent …a1225
adj. 5. gross, highly offensive or loathsome; in later use esp. grossly coarse or indecent …a1300
adj. 6. abounding in, full of …a1300 obs.
adj. 7. abundant, copious …1303 obs.
adj. 8. excessively great or large; esp. swollen, puffed up, grossly fat, too highly fed …c1330 obs.
adj. 9. in close array, crowded together; thick, dense …a1400-50 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
adj. 10. lustful, licentious; depraved, coarse-minded, libidinous …c1520 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adj. 11. having an offensively strong smell; rancid …a1529
adj. 12. numerous, frequent …1545 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
adj. 13. corrupt, foul; festering …1579
adj. 14. high or excessive in amount …1602 obs.
adj. 15. grossly apparent …1624 rare
adj. 16. second-rate, inferior, disgusting …M18 sl.
adj. 17. wild, rugged, projecting, rough …1806 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 18. thorough, utter, extreme …1813 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 19. firm, strong …1848 rare
adj. 20. vexed, passionate, in a temper …1875 Eng. dial.
adj. 21. vigorous, fast …1883 Amer. dial.
adj. 22. wild, uncontrollable, mischievous, cunning …1892 Eng. & Amer. dial.
adj. 23. of a boat: top-heavy …1898 Sc.
adj. 24. very eager, anxious, impatient, ardently desirous …1899 Eng. & Amer. dial.
adj. 25. sorry …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 26. ruined, spoiled; gone awry …20C Amer. sl.
adj. 27. impertinent, extremely cheeky …20C W. Indies sl.
adj. 28. in horse racing, of a horse: unruly at the starting post …1951 Amer. dial.
adj. 29. excellent, first-rate, admirable …1970s Black British sl.
adv. 1. rapidly, violently, headlong …1590 obs.
adv. 2. extremely, completely …1607
n. 1. rankness, strength …a1300 obs. rare
n. 2. a row or line of persons …1571 rare
n. 3. a class, set, kind of persons or things …1585 obs.
n. 4. in chess: one of the lines of squares stretching across the board from side to side …1597
n. 5. smoke …1894 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a failed crime, esp. when foiled by the authorities …1920s US criminals’ sl.
n. 7. one who is a subject of ridicule; a ridiculous or socially unacceptable person …1956 Amer. dial.
n. 8. a criminal, a gangster …1990s W. Indies & Black British sl.
vb. 1. of a tiger: to roar …1607 obs. rare
vb. 2. to cheat …M19 sl.
vb. 3. to move in a boisterous manner …1870 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to lead a wildly dissipated life …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to wander …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to say or do anything that discloses another’s guilt in a crime; to deal in innuendo …20C Amer. sl.
vb. 7. to betray, to let down …1920s US sl.
vb. 8. to catch in the act of committing a crime …1920s US sl.
vb. 9. to fail, esp. in the commission of a crime …1920s US criminals’ sl.
vb. 10. to lower; to lose status or job seniority …1930s sl.
vb. 11. to cause problems for another person’s plans or actions …1930s sl., orig. African-American
vb. 12. to disdain, to disparage …1930s US sl.
vb. 13. to kid or tease a person; to annoy, to harass; to ridicule …1934 Amer. dial.
vb. 14. to insult or put down someone, esp. within one’s social group …1958 African-American sl.
vb. 15. to park a car …1958 Amer. dial.
• RANK AND RICHES
n. breeches, trousers …L19 rhyming sl.
• RANK AND RITCHES
n. breeches, trousers …L19 rhyming sl.
• RANK AND SMELL
n. a common person …L19 sl.
• RANK-ASS
adj. second-rate, inferior, disgusting …M18 sl.
• RANKED
adj. 1. rancid …1660 obs.
adj. 2. drunk …1990s US college sl.
• RANKER
n. an absolute idiot …M19 sl.
• RANK FULL
adj. full to overflowing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANKFULLY
adv. rankly …1607 obs. rare
• RANKING
n. the act of insulting, usually one’s family, and esp. one’s mother …1960s African-American sl.
• RANKISH
adj. 1. luxuriant in growth, flourishing …1398 obs. rare
adj. 2. having a bad smell, stinking …1661 obs. rare
• RANKLE
n. 1. a festering sore …c1380 obs. rare
n. 2. rankling thought or feeling; an instant bitterness …1795 rare
vb. 1. to fret or chafe angrily, to be or become irritated …1582 rare
vb. 2. to move …1898 Sc.
• RANK NEEDLE
n. a confidence trickster …L18 sl.
• RANK ON
vb. 1. to disparage …1950s Amer. sl.
vb. 2. to insult, often by ritual insults directed at the other person’s mother …1950s sl.
• RANK OUT
vb. 1. to get ready; to dress …1841 Sc.
vb. 2. to kid or tease a person; to harass, to insult, often by ritual insults directed at the other person’s mother …1966 Amer. dial.
vb. 3. to beg for help, to surrender to pressure, to behave badly or weakly …1980s African-American sl.
• RANK OUTSIDER
n. a complete and utter inferior person…L19 sl.
• RANK-RIDER
n. a rapid, headlong, or reckless rider; a moss-trooper, a highwayman …1590 obs.
n. 2. a jockey …L17 sl.
• RANKRINGING
adj. wild, coarse, lawless …1822 Sc. obs.
• RANK RIPE
adj. of fruit: quite ripe; overripe …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANKSMAN
n. a boat that agrees to keep company with another boat and divide the catch equally …1898 Sc.
• RANK SOMEONE’S ACTION
vb. to obstruct deliberately another’s sexual advances …1930s African-American sl.
• RANK SOMEONE’S GAME
vb. to obstruct deliberately another’s sexual advances …1930s African-American sl.
• RANK SOMEONE’S PLAY
vb. to obstruct deliberately another’s sexual advances …1930s African-American sl.
• RANK SOMEONE’S STYLE
vb. to obstruct deliberately another’s sexual advances …1930s African-American sl.
• RANK-TOOTHED
adj. having a row of teeth …1578 obs.
• RANKUM
n. ? a noisy chorus …1693 obs. rare
• RANKY
adj. smoky …1894 Eng. dial.
• RANKY DANK
n. an unsophisticated, unworldly person …1960s African-American sl.
• RANNACK
n. a dissolute spendthrift, a rake …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. to be noisy and rough; to romp about wildly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANNACKS
n. half-wild, rompish sheep …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANNAGANT
n. a wild, loose-living person; a good-for-nothing …1832 Sc.
• RANNAKY
adj. rakishly inclined …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANNEL
adj. ravenously hungry, voracious …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adv. eagerly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to punish a boy for cheating or other offenses by pulling his hair or ears …1830 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to talk in a rambling, gossiping way …1896 Eng. dial.
• RANNELL
n. a hussy, a jade; an impudent girl or woman; an unchaste or lewd woman …1573 obs.
• RANNERS
n. wild, indistinct dreams …Bk1905 N. Ireland
• RANNIGAL
n. 1. a bold, impudent, unruly person …1825 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a worthless fellow …1847 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 3. a masterful, turbulent person or animal …1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RANNIKABOO
n. a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam …1935 Amer. dial.
• RANNILY
adv. fluently, readily, without hesitation …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANNING
n. a scolding …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANNISH
adj. rash, giddy, rough; furious, violent …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANNOCH
n. bracken …Bk1905 Sc.
• RANNY
n. 1. the field mouse, or shrew mouse …1559 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. any long-nosed thing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 3. an emaciated, stunted, or delicate looking person …20C Ulster sl.
n. 4. a cowboy …1907 Amer. dial., sometimes derogatory
n. 5. a sheep that is kept as a pet …1950 Amer. dial.
• RANNYCAVOO
n. a cowboy …1942 Amer. dial., sometimes derogatory
• RANNYGAZOO
n. a deceptive story or scheme; a caper; a prank; a trick; horseplay; nonsense; irrelevant, irritating activity …L19 Amer. sl.
• RANNYGILL
n. 1. a bold, impudent, unruly person …1825 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a worthless fellow …1847 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• RANNY-POINT
n. a long, sharp point …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANPIKE
n. an upright, dead tree trunk …1969 Amer. dial.
• RANSACK
vb. 1. to search a person for something stolen or missing …c1250 obs.
vb. 2. to assail, to shake, etc. roughly; to visit with harshness or violence …c1375 obs.
vb. 3. to make thorough search …c1386 rare
• RANSACKLE
vb. to ransack, to search for closely …1802 Eng. dial.
• RANSE
n. a prop or support …1808 chiefly Sc.
vb. to prop, to support …1808 Sc.
• RANSEL
vb. to search throughout a parish for stolen or for insufficient goods; also, to inquire into every kind of misdemeanour …1615 Sc.
• RANSH
vb. to munch and chew vigorously with much noise; to crunch with the teeth …1825 Sc.
• RANSHACKLE
vb. to ransack, to search for closely …1621 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• RANSHACKLED
adj. rickety, dilapidated …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANSIE
adj. having a ruddy complexion, high-coloured, florid, fiery-faced …1805 Sc.
• RANSIE-LUGGED CARLE
n. an old man who retains a high complexion …1825 Sc.
• RANSOM
n. 1. the thing ransomed …a1300 obs. rare
n. 2. a large sum …a1400-50 obs. rare
n. 4. an extravagant price or rent …1882 Sc.
• RANSTIEST
adj. hardest, most difficult …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANT
n. 1. a violent scolding …1663 obs. rare
n. 2. a boisterous, riotous frolic or merrymaking; a spree …1675 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 3. a lively, noisy, or irregular tune or song …1725 chiefly Sc.
n. 4. a merrymaking or pleasure trip; a rough frolic; a lively story or song; a loud noise …1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 5. a stream; a river …1874 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a rent, a tear …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to frolic, to romp; to be jovial, boisterous, uproariously gay or merry; to lead a gay or dissolute life; also, to sing or talk loudly …1598
vb. 2. to storm or scold violently …1647 obs.
vb. 3. to rent, to pull, to tear …1872 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to play at see-saw …1896 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to roam about, staring into shop windows …1896 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. in marbles: to steal by force …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 7. to blow or stir up a fire; to blaze, to burn fiercely …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 8. to unduly and forcibly handle a female …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 9. to take by violence …L19 sl.
• RANTACKET
n. a noise, an uproar …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANT-A-COME-SCOUR
n. 1. a scold; a man in a violent passion …1866 Eng. dial.
n. 2. an uproar …1892 Eng. dial.
• RANTALLION
n. ‘one whose scrotum is relaxed as to be longer than his penis’ …L18 sl.
• RAN-TAN
adj. loud, noisy …1630 Eng. dial. & sl.
n. 1. a word expressive of a loud banging noise; a sudden, violent sound; a noise, a din …c1640 Eng. dial. & sl.
n. 2. a riot; a drinking bout; a spree …1886 Eng. dial. & sl.
n. 3. an ill temper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. to make a noise with rough singing, and the beating of pots and pans, at the house of a man who has beaten his wife …1869 Eng. dial.
• RANTANKEROUS
adj. quarrelsome, argumentative, cantankerous; unruly, mean, bad …c1832 US colloq.
adv. fiercely, furiously …1859 Amer. dial.
• RANTANTINGLY
adv. extravagantly (possibly a misprint for ‘rantingly’) …1599 obs.
• RANTER
n. 1. a noisy, riotous, dissipated fellow; a rake …1654 obs.
n. 2. a lively singer or player …a1700 Sc.
n. 3. a Primitive Methodist; a Dissenter …1805 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. a reveller; a noisy scold …1812 Sc.
n. 5. a vessel to draw beer into …1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 6. any piece of work badly done …BK1905 Sc.
n. 7. one who works, sings, or does anything in a careless, ill manner …Bk1905 Sc.
vb. 1. to sew up a rent, or apply a patch with invisible stitches; to darn, to mend …1673-88 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to seam up roughly, with wide stitches …1882 Sc.
vb. 3. to attempt to reconcile assertions or propositions that are dissonant …Bk1905 Sc.
vb. 4. to pour liquor from a large vessel into smaller ones …Bk1905 Sc.
vb. 5. to darn, esp. to thicken then heels of stockings by running them …Bk1905 Sc.
vb. 6. to do any kind of work in a hurried, careless manner …Bk1905 Sc.
• RANTER-DRAWED
adj. darned …1655 obs.
• RANTER-GO-ROUND
n. 1. an old-fashioned game of cards; any number of players; the first player throws a card; next player, if he can, throws the same number in any other suit; if he cannot he pays one into pool; and so on till the fourth card of equal value is thrown, on which trick is taken by its player; if the player of the third has the fourth of equal value in his hand all the others pay, the holder of the most tricks takes the pool …1886 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a merry-go-round …1893 Eng. dial.
• RANTERISM
n. noisy preaching and praying, common among the ‘Ranters’ …1896 Eng. dial.
• RANTER’S JACE
n. a rambling hunt; a wild-goose chase …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RAN THE GOOD RACE
adj. dead …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RANTICUMSCOUR
n. an uproar …1892 Eng. dial.
• RANTIE-TANTIE
n. sexual intercourse …M18 sl.
• RANTING
adj. 1. unruly, restive …1658 obs.
adj. 2. flaunting …c1685 obs.
adj. 3. of a fire: blazing, roaring …1725 Sc.
adj. 4. romping, roistering …1888 Eng. dial.
n. a seesaw …1897 Eng. dial.
• RANTINGLY
adv. in a jovial, riotous manner …1816 Sc.
• RANTING-PLACE
n. a place for revelling …1890 Sc.
• RANTIPIKE
n. an ass …1851 Eng. dial.
• RANTIPOLE
adj. 1. sexually ardent …M17 sl.
adj. 2. wild, disorderly, rakish, noisy, rough …1700 rare
n. 1. sexual intercourse with the woman taking the superior position…M17 sl.
n. 2. a rude, romping boy or girl; a wild, ill-behaved or reckless person; a scold, a termagant, a shrew; a dissolute person …a1700 rare
n. 3. a clumsy person …18C Eng. dial.
n. 4. a prostitute …18C sl.
n. 5. a seesaw; the game of seesaw …1884 Eng. dial.
vb. to go about or behave in a romping, rude, or noisy fashion …1712
• RANTIPOLING
adj. riotous, boisterous …1876 Eng. dial.
• RANTIPOLL
adj. sexually ardent …M17 sl.
n. 1. sexual intercourse with the woman taking the superior position…M17 sl.
n. 2. a rude, romping boy or girl …L17 sl.
n. 3. a prostitute …18C sl.
• RANTIPOW
adj. wild, noisy, rough …1800 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a termagant; a romping, boisterous child; a clumsy person …1807 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a seesaw; the game of seesaw …1884 Eng. dial.
• RANTISPIKE
n. an ass …1851 Eng. dial.
• RANTIZE
vb. to sprinkle; used with reference to baptism by sprinkling instead of immersion …1644 obs. rare
• RANTLING
n. squeaking …a1693 obs. rare
• RANTOONE
n. a form of tricycle formerly in use; it had a small wheel in front, and two larger wheels behind, and was guided by means of the front wheel …1869 obs.
• RAN-TREE
n. the beam over the fire on which posts, kettles, etc., are hung …BK1905 Sc. obs.
• RANTUM-SCANTUM
adj. harum-scarum, disorderly …1727-8 obs.
n. 1. unintelligible language, gibberish …1600 obs.
n. 2. copulation …M18 sl.
n. 3. a wordy and mutual recrimination; a noisy argument …L18 sl.
• RANTUM SCOOT
n. an outing with no definite destination; a pleasure drive …1896 Amer. dial.
• RANTUM-SCOOTUM
adj. harum-scarum, disorderly …1885 US
• RANTUM-SKANTUM
n. unintelligible language, gibberish …1600 obs.
• RANTY
adj. lively, riotous, eager; wildly excited with passion, pain, anger, etc.; almost mad …1783 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. a seesaw …1874 Eng. dial.
• RANTY-MAD
adj. raving, noisy, boisterous …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RANTYPOWL
n. a seesaw; the game of seesaw …1884 Eng. dial.
• RANTY-TANTY
adj. very angry, wrathful; in a violent passion …1846 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a weed with a reddish leaf which grows among corn …1725 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 2. the broad-leaved dock. Rumex oblusifolius …B1900 Sc.
n. 3. a kind of beverage, distilled from heath and other vegetable substances, formerly used by the peasantry …B1900 Sc. obs.
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