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单词 rapparee
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rappareen.

Brit. /ˌrapəˈriː/, U.S. /ˌræpəˈri/, Irish English /ˌræpəˈriː/
Forms:

α. 1600s rapary, 1600s rappary, 1600s rappory, 1600s 1800s rapory, 1600s–1800s rappery.

β. 1600s–1700s 1900s– raparee, 1600s– rapparee, 1700s rapperee, 1800s raperee.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Irish. Etymons: Irish rápaire; Irish rapaire.
Etymology: Apparently partly < Irish rápaire rapier, short pike, variant of ráipéir (1600 or earlier; < English rapier (see rapier n.) or its etymon Middle French rapiere ), and partly < Irish rapaire, ropaire violent person, irregular soldier, robber, rapier (late 17th or early 18th cent.) < a first element of uncertain origin (perhaps related to robach damage (Early Irish ropach , robdach assault, injury) or to Early Irish robb , probably ‘outlaw’, both of uncertain origin) + -aire , suffix forming agent nouns (see -er suffix1), perhaps influenced by rápéir rapier (see above) and in later use perhaps also influenced by robaire (19th cent.; < English robber : see robber n.).In β. forms apparently influenced by the Irish plural form rapairí, ropairí.
1.
a. An Irish pikeman or irregular soldier, esp. one fighting on the Jacobite side during the Williamite War of 1689–91. Hence: an Irish bandit, robber, or freebooter. Also attributive. Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > using pike
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > irregular > specific
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > brigand > [noun] > in Ireland
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α.
1690 T. Harrison Let. 23 Aug. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 212 The fugitive Irish, or Rapperies, who steal in the night.
1690 London Gaz. No. 2596/3 Another of our Parties have cut off a Rappery Colonel, with 50 of his Men.
1714 J. Le Neve Lives & Characters Most Illustrious Persons Brit. & Foreign 308 Mr Wood's Behaviour in his Quarters and Pursuit of Rapperies, who Cruelly infested the Country, was very Singular and Praise-worthy.
1800 Protestant Ascendancy & Catholic Emancipation iii. 101 I am convinced they would be joined only by the riot rout of raps and rapperies.
β. 1690 J. Mackenzie Siege London-derry 2/2 These were afterwards called Rapparee's, a sort of Irish Vultures that follow their Armies to pray on the spoil.1692 Siege Lymerick 3 This day several notorious Rapparees were brought Prisoners into our Camp.1707 Act 6 Anne 11 An Act for the more effectual suppression of..robbers and rapparees.1745 G. Berkeley Let. to Gervais 24 Nov. in A. C. Fraser Life viii. 304 We have been alarmed with a report that a great body of rapparees is up in the county of Kilkenny.1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood III. iv. vi. 312 O'Hanlon,..That o'er the broad province of Ulster, the Rapparee banner unfurled.1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 73 The English complained that it was no easy matter to catch a Rapparee.1888 H. D. Traill William III 87 The rapparee Irish levies who formed the bulk of James's force.1906 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 10/1 Lieutenant O'Carroll is a young Irish officer in the King's Army, and is a sort of rapparee trooper.1982 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Nov. 1214/2 At the end of the seventeenth century..the country was swarming with outlaws and raparees.
b. In extended use and figurative: any irregular soldier; a bandit, a rogue.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > irregular
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1692 H. Hody Let. to Friend 2 You are fallen in among Rapparees.
1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. xii. 397 These Zealots, (these Jewish Rapparees and Assassins).
1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church of Eng. I. Ee j b Let..Rapperees and Freebooters, incur the severest Wrath of God.
1787 Daily Universal Reg. 8 Oct. 1/4 The blusterer..was, on the 22d at Alphen, with the handful of rapparees, that stick to him.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xiii. 291 This rapparee promised mountains of wealth.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xiii. 185 By that time we had arrived at the door..I paid the rapparee, and in I popped.
1896 Catholic World July 539 What's the matter, Knox? Anything up to-night? What rogues, rebels, or rapparees are you after now?
a1936 R. Kipling Something of Myself (1937) iii. 44 A walk into the Khyber, where I was shot at, but without malice, by a rapparee who disapproved of his ruler's foreign policy.
1984 P. O'Brian Far Side of World i. 53 Most surgeon's mates being sad ignorant bouncing rapparees.
2. = half-pike n.. Obsolete. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > pike > [noun] > half-pike
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1690 London Gaz. No. 2529/3 Both Horse and Foot are very ill Armed, the latter having for the most part only Scythes, or Half Pikes called Rapories.
1800 E. Malone in J. Dryden Wks. II. 294 The latter were low Irish free-booters, who were armed with a half-pike called a raperee, or rapory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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