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rorty, a. slang (orig. Londoners').|ˈrɔːtɪ|
Also raughty.
[Of obscure origin.]
Fine, splendid, jolly, etc.; (of persons and things) boisterous, rowdy, noisy; (of drinks) intoxicating; (of behaviour, speech, etc.) coarse, earthy, of dubious propriety; crudely comic. Also as quasi-adv.
c1864Vance Chicaleary Cove 1 (Farmer), I have a rorty gal. 1885Punch 22 Aug. 86/2 It's nice, if it's naughty! I'm regular rorty. 1886― 28 Aug. 99/2 We'd a rorty old time... But Stonehenge, as I say, is a fizzle. 1888‘'arry’ in Ibid. 6 Oct. 156/1, I like to feel rorty and free. 1898R. Hichens Londoners xvi. 280 ‘Tell us a good story, Rodney—one of your rorty ones.’ Mr. Rodney shrivelled. ‘I fear’, he murmured—‘I fear I am scarcely in the—the—er—rorty vein to-night.’ 1899R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. ix. 95 She is Boadicea..no ‘British warrior queen’ of nursery recitation, but a right-down ‘raughty gal’, leading her alley [sic] to battle against the Roman ‘slops’. 1904G. B. Lancaster Sons o' Men 190 If Sandy or Towse get into a row we must back 'em up, of course. But it's been a rorty piece of work. 1914‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xvii. 144 I've heard her talking like a Mother to a rorty Midshipman. 1923― Seaways vii. 96 Isn't he a little man?..Bettin' with bookies and actin' rorty. 1932S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvi. 217 Compared with the heavy, muffling darkness of the night in which the countryside was sunk, the lights looked positively rorty. 1950‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xxix. 255 It [sc. coconut milk] comes rortier if you leave it..to ferment, but it's got a kick now. 1969W. Tute Matter of Diplomacy ii. 16 The rorty brigadier must have a taste for lean stringy meat, though of course she had been a baronet's daughter and that made up for a lot. 1971Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 29/3 The once-called ‘power roar’ from the engine compartment..never became obtrusive or ‘rorty’. 1973Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 6/8 He has a wide and rorty selection of illustrations. 1974Good Motoring Mar. 22/1 It is..odd that such a comfortable car should have such brilliant performance..which is characterised by a ‘rorty’ exhaust note. 1978C. Beaton Parting Years 160 Anne Tree is likewise an oversize personality and character—rorty, Hogarthian and with exquisite understanding of character.
Hence ˈrortiness.
1885Referee 23 Aug. (Ware), She reminded me a little too much, in her rortyness, of the serio-comic lady [etc.]. |