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ribble-rabble, adv. and n.|ˈrɪb(ə)l-ˈræb(ə)l|
Also 5 rebylle rable, 7 rible rable, 8– dial. rivel-ravel, 9 Sc. ribble rabbill.
[A reduplication of rabble n.1, of the same type as fiddle-faddle, gibble-gabble, etc.]
A. adv. In great confusion. rare.
c1460Play Sacram. 598 Here master master, ware how ye tugg..for yt gooth rebylle rable. 1882in Jamieson's Sc. Dict. IV. 25.
B. n.
1. Confused meaningless language; rigmarole, gibble-gabble. Now arch.
1601Munday Downf. Earl of Hunt. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 110 High time 'tis for me, To leave off my babble And fond ribble-rabble. 1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 202 Then with a certain Ribble Rabble of Mysterious Words, he proceeds to his Calculation. 1677Cary Chronol. ii. ii. vii. 219 That other Rible Rable..of that other Annotatour upon Clement. 1709High German Looking-Glass in Wright Prov. Dial., A great deal more of such rivel-ravel, of which they knew no more than the man in the moon. 1737Byrom Rem. (1856) II. i. 142, I saw the name of Mademoiselle Bourignon, and ribble rabble, fiddle faddle. 1876E.D.D., Rivel-ravel. 1883Hall Caine Cobw. Crit. ii. 44 The ribble-rabble of the Examiner's poetical animosity.
attrib.1598Florio, Fanfaluche,..flim flam tales, old wiues fables, a ribble rabble discourse. 1601Munday Downf. Earl of Hunt. iv. ii. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 185 You fall into your vein Of ribble-rabble rhymes Skeltonical. 1655tr. Sorel's Com. Hist. Francion i. 11, I cry God mercy..if thou gratest my eares any more with thy ribble rabble discourse.
2. = rabble n.1 2.
1635Shirley Traitor v. iii, My ends are compassed: hang the ribble rabble! 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxi, Perpetual drinking in a rible rable like ducks. 1769Trinculo's Trip 41 Wrangling with the ribble-rabble. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 18 July iii, A mischievous mob of colliers, and such promiscuous ribble rabble. 1819Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 105 A gabble O' tongues..Frae that wine-flister't ribble-rabbill. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. s.v., What a set of ribble-rabble there are about!
attrib.1600Lane Tom Tel-troth 110 So will I leaue to write Against this popish ribble rabble route.
So † ribble-row, a rigmarole. Obs. rare.
1664Cotton Scarron. iv. Wks. (1715) 106 This Witch a Ribble-row rehearses Of scurvy Names in scurvy Verses. 1685― tr. Montaigne (1877) I. 458 Superscribing them with a long ribble-row of qualities and titles. |