• RID
adv. readily, fluently …1790 Sc.
n. 1. refuse, remains …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 2. riddance …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 3. speed, progress, dispatch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to comb the hair …1783 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to disentangle, to unravel …1790 Sc.
vb. 3. to separate, to part combatants …1790 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to remove, to change house; to move one’s goods …1873 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to tidy, to put in order, to clean up …1882 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to retch, to vomit; to cough up; to expectorate …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RID-COMB
n. a comb for the hair …Bk1904 Sc.
• RIDDENER
n. volubility of speech …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to talk incessantly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDDER
n. one who parts combatants; a peacemaker …1775 Sc. obs.
• RIDDILY
adv. with dispatch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDDING
n. 1. a clearing, esp. an open space in a wood; a green road through a wood …1777 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a ford …1882 Eng. dial.
• RIDDING COMB
n. a comb for ordering the hair …1870 Sc. & Eng. Amer. dial.
• RIDDLE
n. an accumulation of phlegm in the throat …1882 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to puzzle …1817 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to explain, to solve, to understand …1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to pierce, to penetrate; to mangle …1892 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to poke up a fire; to clear a grate …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDDLEMEREE
n. rigmarole …c1772 sl.
• RIDDLEMY RIDDLEMY
n. unintelligible language, gibberish, rigmarole, nonsense …1641 obs. rare
• RIDDLEUM
n. a riddle, a conundrum …1824 Sc.
• RIDDLING
n. a riddle, a puzzle, a conundrum …1873 Eng. dial.
• RIDDLUM
n. a riddle, a conundrum …1824 Sc.
• RIDDY
adj. rid …1889 Eng. dial.
• RIDE
n. 1. an act of coition …16C
n. 2. a saddle-horse …1790 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a small stream …1790 Eng. dial.
n. 4. the swell or current of the sea …1892 Sc.
n. 5. a commercial traveller …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a raid, an inroad …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 7. a rut or wheel-mark …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 8. the act of sailing; a passage by water …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 9. a car …Bk1998 sl.
vb. 1. to possess carnally; to have sex …1520 sl.
vb. 2. to rob on the highway …1605 sl.
vb. 3. to be a burden to; to hang oneself upon another …1790 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. in curling: to drive one’s stone with such force as to carry before it an opponent’s stone …1805 Sc.
vb. 5. in bowling: to bowl strongly …1879 Sc.
vb. 6. to climb …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 7. to get angry when teased or jeered at …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 8. to arrest …1930s US criminals’ sl.
• RIDE A COTTON BICYCLE
vb. to menstruate …1948 Amer. dial.
• RIDE A DEAD HORSE
vb. to work without profit …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDE ADMIRAL
vb. 1689 obs. – to take charge
• RIDE A RANTIPOLE
vb. M17 sl. – to have intercourse with the woman taking the superior position
• RIDE AS IF FETCHING THE MIDWIFE
vb. Bk1903 sl. – to go post haste
• RIDE BACKWARDS UP HOLBORN HILL
vb. M17 sl. – to go to the gallows
• RIDE BAYARD OF TEN TOES
vb. Bk1898 Eng. dial. – to go on foot
• RIDE BELLY GUT
vb. 1912 Amer. dial. – to coast on a sled lying down flat
• RIDE BELOW THE CRUPPER
vb. to copulate with a woman …17C colloq.
• RIDE BY THE MARROWBONE COACH
vb. to walk …19C Brit. sl.
• RIDE BY THE MARROWBONE STAGE
vb. to walk …19C Brit. sl.
• RIDE CHANCEY’S MARE
vb. to go on foot …1967 Amer. dial.
• RIDE GRUB
vb. to be sullen, ill-tempered …B1785 colloq.
• RIDE HERD
vb. to manage …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RIDE-HORSE
n. a saddle-horse …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDE IN A CART UP HOLBORN HILL
vb. to go to the gallows …M17 sl.
• RIDE IN THE MARROW-BONE COACH
vb. to go on foot …1838
• RIDE IN THE MARROW-BONE STAGE
vb. to go on foot …1838
► RIDENT adj. radiantly cheerful; laughing, smiling, grinning → 1609
• RIDE OLD SMOKEY
vb. to be electrocuted …1920s US prison sl.
• RIDE ONE BUG-HUNTING
vb. 1. to punish; to chastise; to whip; to beat severely …1906 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to subject one to merciless sarcasm or ridicule …1923 Amer. dial.
• RIDE ON THE BEETLE
vb. to walk on foot with a party on horseback …1824 Sc.
• RIDE ON THE RIDGE
vb. 1. to come to the top, to succeed …1856 Sc.
vb. 2. to talk about continually; to put implicit trust in …1885 Sc.
• RIDE ON THE RIGGIN
vb. 1. to come to the top, to succeed …1856 Sc.
vb. 2. to talk about continually; to put implicit trust in …1885 Sc.
• RIDE-OUT
n. 1. a commercial traveller …1784 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a mess …1890 Amer. dial.
• RIDE OUT WITH
vb. to court …1941 Amer. dial.
• RIDER
n. 1. a sexually aroused male; a lecher or whoremonger …18C Brit. sl.
n. 2. a commercial traveller …1810 sl.
n. 3. a moss-trooper, a border raider …1846 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 4. in curling: a stone played forcibly which dislodges other stones blocking the tee …1891 Sc.
n. 5. a performer at a circus …1895 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a saddle-horse …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDER BOYS
n. arthritis …1970 Amer. dial. jocular usage
• RIDER-HORSE
n. a seesaw, or similar recreational device …1966 Amer. dial.
• RIDER-OUT
n. a commercial traveller …1885 Eng. dial.
• RIDERS
n. a circus company …1895 Eng. dial.
• RIDE RUSTY
vb. 1709 rare – to be obstinate or awkward; to be angry; to take offense
• RIDE SHANK’S COLT
vb. Bk1913-17 Amer. dial. – to ride Shank’s mare
• RIDE SHANK’S HORSE
vb. 1917 Amer. dial. – to go on foot
• RIDE SHANK’S HORSES
vb. to go on foot …1917 Amer. dial.
• RIDE SHANK’S MARE
vb. to go on foot …1831 Amer. dial.
• RIDE SHANK’S PONIES
vb. to go on foot …1931 Amer. dial.
• RIDE SHANK’S PONY
vb. to go on foot …1931 Amer. dial.
• RIDE SHANKS’S MARE
vb. to go on foot …1831 Amer. dial.
• RIDE THE BEETLE
vb. to walk on foot with a party on horseback …1824 Sc.
• RIDE THE DEAD HORSE
vb. to work to pay off a debt …19C Aust., NZ, & US sl.
• RIDE THE DECK
vb. to commit sodomy …E20 US sl.
• RIDE THE DUN HORSE
vb. to collect accounts due for payment …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDE THE ERIE
vb. to listen intently …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• RIDE THE FORE-HORSE
vb. to take the lead; to have the upper hand …1824 Sc.
• RIDE THE GRUB LINE
vb. to travel about looking for work, esp. odd jobs …1899 Amer. West usage
• RIDE THE LIGHTNING
vb. to be executed in the electric chair …1935 US sl.
• RIDE THE MAIN LINE
vb. to take drugs intravenously …1957 Amer. drug culture sl.
• RIDE-THE-MOON
n. a wild, dissipated fellow …1900 Eng. dial.
• RIDE THE RAG
vb. to be menstruating …1920s sl.
• RIDE THE RAILS
phr. in car racing: racing technique that calls for taking the outside course on the flats and the high part of the banked curves …Bk1998 sl.
• RIDE THE RIGGEN
vb. to be very intimate …Bk1903 Eng. dial. sl.
• RIDE THE SKIES
vb. to travel in an airplane …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RIDE THE TOBY
vb. to practice highway robbery …19C thieves’ sl.
• RIDE THE WATER WITH
vb. to trust, to depend upon …1822 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RIDGE
n. 1. gold: manufactured or specie; in latter case specifically, a guinea; a pound …c1696 sl.
n. 2. money … Bk1903 sl.
n. 3. a deep wagon-rut …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDGE-BONE
n. 1. the spine or backbone …a1000 rare or obs.
n. 2. the weather boarding on the outside of wooden houses …1853 Eng. dial.
• RIDGE-CULLY
n. a goldsmith …1665 criminals’ sl.
• RIDGEL
n. a term of abuse applied to men; a sportive, mischievous lad …1703 Eng. dial.
• RIDGELET
n. a small narrow ridge of land …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDGE-MONTRA
n. a gold watch …Bk1903 sl.
• RIDGER
n. a libidinous man …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDGE ROOTER
n. a razorback hog …1982 Amer. dial.
• RIDGE RUNNER
n. 1. a rustic, esp. a mountaineer; an uncouth, stupid fellow; a hillbilly …1917 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a person who wanders from place to place, esp. someone on the prowl …1930 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a wild horse which keeps to a ridge or high point to watch for danger and warn the herd …1939 Amer. dial.
n. 4. a razorback hog …1954 Amer. dial.
n. 5. a White person …1966 African-American sl.
n. 6. a deer ranging the beech ridges in the fall; hence, somebody well versed in the woods …1975 Amer. dial.
n. 7. one who transports or sells illegal liquor …1986 Amer. dial.
• RIDGE-RUNNER HOG
n. a wild hog in the mountains …1986 Amer. dial.
• RIDGIL
vb. to flog, to beat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDGILING
n. a beating, a flogging; a scolding …1896 Eng. dial.
• RIDGY-DIDGE
adj. okay, all right …1953 Aust. sl.
• RID-HAND
adj. clever, ready with the hands …1824 Sc.
• RID HOUSE
vb. to remove, to change house; to move one’s goods …1873 Eng. dial.
• RIDIBUND
adj. 1909 – inclined to laughter; happy, lively
• RIDIBUNDAL
adj. 1652 obs. – inclined to laughter
• RIDICULE
n. 1. 1822 Sc. obs. – a practical joke
n. 2. 1843 Eng. & Amer. dial. – a reticule; a bag in which women carry gloves, handkerchiefs, etc.
• RIDICULIZE
vb. 1615 obs. rare – to make ridiculous
• RIDICULOSITY
n. ridiculousness; a ridiculous matter; anything that arouses laughter; a jest or joke …1725 rare or arch.
• RIDICULOUS
adj. 1. indecent; outrageous …1832 Amer. dial.
adj. 2. shameful, disgraceful, scandalous …1893 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. excellent …1959 sl., orig. jazz usage
• RIDIE-BOB
n. a seesaw …1969 Amer. dial.
• RIDING
n. marauding, raiding; a border raid …1897 Sc.
• RIDING BOARD
n. a seesaw …c1970 Amer. dial.
• RIDING-HAG
n. the nightmare …Bk1903 colloq.
• RIDING HORSE
n. a seesaw, or similar recreational device …1949 Amer. dial.
• RIDING MARE
n. a homemade merry-go-round …1969 Amer. dial.
• THE RIDING OF THE WITCH
n. the nightmare …BK1903 colloq.
• RIDING PLANK
n. a seesaw …1998 Amer. dial.
• RIDING-RANTIPOW
n. the game of seesaw …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDING THE COTTON BICYCLE
n. menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
• RIDING THE RAG
adj. having the menstrual period …20C US sl.
• RIDING THE SADDLE
adj. menstruating …1966 Amer. dial.
• RIDING THE WHITE HORSE
adj. having the menstrual period …20C US sl.
• RIDLESS
n. 1. a conundrum, a riddle …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a doggerel rhyme; an improbable story, a rigmarole …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIDS
n. boughs of trees …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• RIDSOME
adj. ready, expert; expeditious, quickly dispatched …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RID THE STOMACH
vb. to vomit …Bk1903 sl.
• RID UP
vb. to clear off a table, esp. after a meal …1965 Amer. dial.
• RIDY-BOB
n. a seesaw …1969 Amer. dial.
• RIDY-HORSE
n. a seesaw, or similar recreational device …1949 Amer. dial.
• RIE
n. the raised border on the top of a stocking …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIEF
n. robbery, rapine, plunder …1791 Sc.
• RIERFUL
adj. roaring, loud …1768 Sc.
• RIF
vb. to separate someone from military service or employment (Reduction In Force) …1983 US sl.
• RIFE
adj. quick; ready; inclined to …1853 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 1. a broad ditch …1874 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a salt-water pond …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIFE LIVING
n. high living …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RIFF
n. 1. a ridge …1883 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a rhythmic musical phrase played repeatedly; used in jazz and rock …1935 US sl.
n. 3. a refrigerated railway wagon …1946 US sl.
n. 4. a verbal embellishment that adds no meaning to what is being said …1967 US sl.
n. 5. an activity or experience …1975 US sl.
n. 6. an oft-repeated argument or point of view …2000 UK sl.
n. 7. the theme or gist of a conversation …2000 UK sl.
vb. 1. to repeatedly play a rhythmic musical figure, usually on a piano or guitar …1955 US sl.
vb. 2. to complain …1989 US sl.
vb. 3. to brag; to lie …1990 US sl.
• RIFFAGE
n. rhythmic style(s) of rock music …2002 UK sl.
• RIFFLE
n. a break in a roof made by a strong wind carrying away the slates or thatch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. of the wind: to tear off the roof of a house …1891 Eng. dial.
• RIFF-RAFF
adj. worthless …Bk1903 sl.
n. 1. a low, disreputable person; the rabble, the mob …1836 Sc. & Eng. dial. & sl.
n. 2. anything worthless; refuse; sweepings; offal …1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. the poor, illiterate class …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
n. 4. booty …Bk1903 sl.
• RIFLE
n. the penis …17C Brit.
vb. 1. to grope or possess a woman …1620 sl.
vb. 2. to coit …17C Brit.
• RIFLE-MAN
n. a lecher; a whoremonger …19C Brit. sl.
• RIFLER
n. a horse-stealer …L16 sl.
• RIFLE THROW
n. a fast throw …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RIFT
n. 1. a belch; a burp …15C
n. 2. a patch of broken water; a rapid …1727 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to belch, to burp …19C
vb. 2. to break wind …19C
vb. 3. to vomit; of a cow: to regurgitate the cud …1930 Amer. dial.
• RIFTY TUFTY
adv. with disorderly haste or confusion; helter-skelter …1592 obs.
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