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rippit Sc. and U.S. dial.|ˈrɪpɪt|
Also 6 repet, repit, rippett, 6–9 rippet.
[Perh. of imitative origin.]
Tumult, uproar, disturbance, noisy dispute.
1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 193 He ralis, and makis repet with ryatus wordis. 1513Douglas æneis viii. xii. 104 Off riot, rippett, and of reveling. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 221 Sic ane repit, rumour, and sic ane reird, Was neuir hard befoir into this eird. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 76 Sik a rippet is amang thame. c1800Jamieson Water Kelpie iii, And Prosen proud, with rippet loud, Cums ravin' frae his glen. 1851W. Anderson Rhymes 195 Sic a rage an' a rippit I seldom hae seen. 1870J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace xlii. 270 At last the manager threw his hat among 'em and called out, ‘Stampede all’, and the ‘rippit’ commenced. 1887Service Life Dr. Duguid v. 31 Some rippit getting up at the other end of the schule. 1913H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders xiii. 294 If they quarrel, it is a ruction, a rippit, a jower, or an up-scuddle—so be it there are no fatalities which would amount to a real fray. 1913J. Service Memorables 67 Some dreidfu' nicht rippit there had been amang the cairters. 1928M. Chapman Happy Mountain 313 Degrees of feeling among unfriendly neighbors... A rippit, fight with fists. 1958Huntly Express 19 Dec. 6 For fear ony rippits brook out at the dance. |