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rope-ripe

adj

Etymology

From rope + ripe.

  1. derived from *h₁reyb-✻ — “to snatch”
  2. inherited from *rīpijaz✻
  3. inherited from *rīpī✻
  4. inherited from rīpe — “ripe, mature”
  5. inherited from ripe
  6. compounded as rope-ripe — “rope + ripe”

Definitions

  1. Deserving of being hanged.

    • Sometymes our coyne, could stop a gappe, / And purchace pardon by a traine: / But gallows lucke, and ropripe happe, / At length was gwerdon for our paine.
    • As we argued already, Shakespeare's representation of the rope-ripe shrew likely was inspired by abundant accounts of the well-hanged and well-hung shrewmouse.

  2. Punishable by being hanged.

    • Therefore the reporting of our tale, may ſone appere plain if we firſt expreſſe our minde in plaine words, and not ſeeke theſe roperipe termes, which betraie rather a foole, then commende a wiſe man[…]
    • Lord, how you roule in your rope-ripe termes.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA