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单词 ribaldry
释义 ribaldry|ˈrɪbəldrɪ|
Forms: α. 4 riboud-, 4–6 ri-, rebaud-, 4–7 ribaud-; 5 rebawd-, 5–6 ri-, rybawd-. β. 5 ry-, 6–7 ribauld-; 5–6 ry-, rebald-, 6 ribaldry (7 ribb-). Also 4 -ri, 4–5 -rye, 4–7 -rie; 5 -ery.
[a. OF. re-, ribau(l)derie (= Sp., Pg., and It. ribalderia): see ribald n. and -ry. So MDu. ribauderie.]
1. Debauchery, lasciviousness, vice. Obs.
α13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 184 For þefte, & for þrepyng, vn-þonk may mon haue; For roborrye, & riboudrye.c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋390 Schewyng of vice and rybaudrie and seruage of synne.1474Caxton Chesse 20, I shal say that I haue slayn you for your rybaudrye.1547Bk. of Marchantes d v, The desyre to norishe well..their rybawdry or (as thei saye) their estate.1567–9Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 345 Take Harlots away from among men, and ye fill all the Country with ribaudrie and villanie.1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. iii. (1636) 207 A Jew maide..turned..Christian that she might freely exercise the art of Ribaudrie.
βc1425Wyntoun Cron. v. iv. 708 Al his men he lewit for þi In til al tyme oysse rebaldry, And alkyn wicis at þar wil.1483Caxton Cato A vi b, Dame harlote ye come from your rybauldrye as ye ben acustomed.1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 200 Let him punish dishonestie, ribauldrie, filthy lust.1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 56 Their beastly stage plaiers acted such ribauldry as was a shame [etc.].1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 198 A little purer then the prerogative of a legal and public ribaldry.
2. Obscenity or coarseness of language, a coarse tale, a rude composition; in later use, scurrilous or irreverent jesting; coarse or wanton mockery.
α13..Cursor M. 23856 (Gött.), Bot war a ribaudri vs tald, Of a fantum.., Þat suld we hald in herte stable.1393[see ribald n. 4].c1460Vrbanitatis 76 in Babees Book (1868) 15 Lawȝe þou not with no grette cry, Ne Rage þou not with Rybawdry.c1460Stans Puer ad Mensam 44 Ibid. 24 Swere none othes, speke no ribawdrye.1514Barclay Egloges ii. (1570) B ij, On eche side soundeth foule speche of ribawdry.1592Greene Disput. Wks. (Grosart) X. 270, I..still delighted in iangling Ditties of rybaudrie.1606Holland Sueton. 250 So skurrile and filthy, that he could not so much as forbeare words of ribaudrie.
β1501Douglas Pal. Hon. Epil., Ressaue this roustie rurall rebaldrie.1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. Wks. (Grosart) I. 43 Tender youth ought to bee restrained for a time from the reading of such ribauldrie.1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv, We haue as much ribaldrie in our plaies, as can bee.1682Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Ess. Poetry, Bare ribaldry, that poor pretence to wit.1711Steele Spect. No. 36 ⁋8 To the great Offence of chaste and tender Ears, they learn Ribaldry, obscene Songs, and immodest Expressions.1759Goldsm. Polite Learn. x[ii], The piece..pleases the galleries because it has ribaldry.1827Hallam Const. Hist. ii. (1876) I. 93 The ribaldry which vulgar protestants uttered against their most sacred mystery.1886Ruskin Præterita I. 399 An article in Blackwood's..of sufficiently telling ribaldry.
personif.1781Cowper Table-T. 729 Satire has..done his best, and curst And loathsome ribaldry has done his worst.
3.
a. Rabble, canaille. Obs. rare.
1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds (1877) §190. 112 The sayde rybaldry callyng them selves Hungariens.Ibid. §201. 115, I dare let slyp a .C. good yomen of England or Wales to .Vc. of such ribaldry.
b. A trumpery toy. Obs. rare—1.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1596) 183 To make clocks, pictures, poppets and other ribaldries which are impertinent to mans service.
4. attrib. or as adj. Obscene, indecent. Obs.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 62 b, I consayle the refrayne thy selfe fro such foule and rebaudry wordes.1547Boorde Brev. Health clxiii. 58 b, With out swerynge or slaunderynge, and rybaldry speaking.1592Nashe Four Lett. Confut. Wks. (Grosart) II. 247 Such a ribauldry Don Diego as thou art.1633Prynne 1st Pt. Histriom. 225 Not onely Drunkennesse, Luxury, Playes, and ribaldry Songs.1638Junius Paint. Ancients 124 It hath been pleasing..to drinke in ribauldrie abominations.
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