rilen.
/rʌɪl/, U.S. /raɪl/ Chiefly U.S. regional (New England).
Cloudiness or muddiness in liquid, as caused by silt or other matter which has been stirred up. Also: the silt, etc., causing this.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > specific impurities > sediment > state of being thick with
rile1848
1848 J. R. Lowell in Anti-slavery Standard 6 July 20/6 'Twill take more fish-skin than folks think to take the rile clean out on 't.
1859 H. D. Beecher & E. D. Proctor Life Thoughts 2nd Ser. 7 The muddy bottom sends its rile through all the waters.
1910 M. E. Waller Flamsted Quarries ii. i. 66 Arter a day or two ye come back an' look agin, an' where's the rile? All settled to the bottom, an' the lake as clear as a looking-glass.
1986 P. Matthiessen Men's Lives vi. 71 In the new light, we could see that the water was browning with churned sand, what the fishermen call sand rile.
1989 U.S. Patent 4,883,620 3 The rile..may be carried by currents in the water, and fish some distance from the body.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
rilev.
/rʌɪl/, U.S. /raɪl/ 1.
a. transitive. To annoy, make angry, vex, irritate; (sometimes more generally) to stir up, rouse, provoke a response from. Also with up.Regarded as an American usage during the 19th and much of the 20th cent., although surviving in English regional use at least until the late 19th. Cf. roil v.3 2.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)]
gremec893
grillc897
teenOE
mispay?c1225
agrillec1275
oftenec1275
tarya1300
tarc1300
atenec1320
enchafec1374
to-tarc1384
stingc1386
chafe?a1400
pokec1400
irec1420
ertc1440
rehete1447
nettlec1450
bog1546
tickle1548
touch1581
urge1593
aggravate1598
irritate1598
dishumour1600
to wind up1602
to pick at ——1603
outhumour1607
vex1625
bloody1633
efferate1653
rankle1659
spleen1689
splenetize1700
rile1724
roil1742
to put out1796
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
roughen1837
acerbate1845
to stroke against the hair, the wrong way (of the hair)1846
nag1849
to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way1859
frump1862
rattle1865
to set up any one's bristles1873
urticate1873
needle1874
draw1876
to rough up1877
to stick pins into1879
to get on ——1880
to make (someone) tiredc1883
razoo1890
to get under a person's skin1896
to get a person's goat1905
to be on at1907
to get a person's nanny1909
cag1919
to get a person's nanny-goat1928
cagmag1932
peeve1934
tick-off1934
to get on a person's tits1945
to piss off1946
bug1947
to get up a person's nose1951
tee1955
bum1970
tick1975
the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > cause nervous excitement or agitate [verb (transitive)]
to carry away?1529
agitate1591
fermentate1599
tumultuate1616
alarm1620
overwork1645
uncalm1650
flutter1664
pother1692
to set afloata1713
fluctuate1788
fuss1816
tumult1819
to break up1825
rile1857
to steam up1860
to shake up1884
1724 T. Cooke tr. Bion in tr. Moschus & Bion Idylliums 82 To rile the Youth, himself divert with Play, The Wanton starts, and skips from Spray to Spray.
1815 Monthly Mag. Mar. 125/1 [In a list of Essex dialect words] To Rile, to vex.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 158 Bein' afeerd he might ryle my blood.
1846 F. E. Smedley in Sharpe's London Mag. 13 June 104/2 I like to rile Cumberland sometimes, because he's always so soft and silky; he seems afraid of getting into a good honest rage.
1857 J. G. Holland Bay-path iii. 32 It only raises the devil in me, and riles me all up.
1860 Punch 22 Sept. 119/1 That wicked thraytor..Riled the noble natur Of Erin's great defender.
1876 J. Richardson Cummerland Talk 2nd Ser. 165 [He] oft to Betty things wad say, 'At rile't auld Watson sair.
1883 Bread-Winners 175 It riled me to have to pay for two cables.
1900 ‘J. Flynt’ & ‘F. Walton’ Powers that Prey 181 It riles a bloke's sense o' justice to be accused false.
1929 P. Hamilton Midnight Bell xxxiii. 183 He knew that she had endless and intricate powers of riling and maddening him.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 68 Calculating this ought to rile up public opinion some.
1989 E. Dunlop Valley of Deer vii. 34 It was his air of knowing all the answers which riled Mrs Farrar.
2004 Q Sept. 10/2 If that's what it takes to mildly rile the singer, how far does he have to be pushed to really lose his rag?
b. intransitive. Chiefly U.S. colloquial. Usually with up. To get angry or irritated; to bridle.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry
wrethec900
wrothc975
abelghec1300
to move one's blood (also mood)c1330
to peck moodc1330
gremec1460
to take firea1513
fumec1522
sourdc1540
spitec1560
to set up the heckle1601
fire1604
exasperate1659
to fire up1779
to flash up1822
to get one's dander up1831
to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832
to have (also get) one's monkey up1833
to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837
rile1837
to go off the handle1839
to flare up1840
to set one's back up1845
to run hot1855
to wax up1859
to get one's rag out1862
blow1871
to get (also have) the pricker1871
to turn up rough1872
to get the needle1874
to blaze up1878
to get wet1898
spunk1898
to see red1901
to go crook1911
to get ignorant1913
to hit the ceiling1914
to hit the roof1921
to blow one's top1928
to lose one's rag1928
to lose one's haira1930
to go up in smoke1933
hackle1935
to have, get a cob on1937
to pop (also blow) one's cork1938
to go hostile1941
to go sparec1942
to do one's bun1944
to lose one's wool1944
to blow one's stack1947
to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950
rear1953
to get on ignorant1956
to go through the roof1958
to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964
to lose ita1969
to blow a gasket1975
to throw a wobbler1985
1837 Bentley's Misc. Feb. 124 I began to rile, I did; and grow tarnation wolfy.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 199 They rile up, sometimes; but in general we have a hold upon our citizens.
1863 B. Brierley Chrons. Waverlow 156 The little fellow riled up at this.
1907 E. P. Butler Kilo xi. 167 When I kind of got my senses back I riled up right away.
1954 F. E. Smith Yazoo River xv. 226 He didn't pay no 'tention to what I was sayin', but looked kinder glum; so I riled up and begin to show mad a circumstance.
1992 M. Chan Getting Your Man 40 ‘Checkout chicks’ were women—or ‘girls’... She riled at the thought.
2005 D. Ingham Tales with Texas Twist 139 He makes a fist and shakes it in the air. He riles up and says, ‘That dog-goned little scoundrel!’
2. transitive. To make (a liquid) turbid or cloudy by stirring up mud, silt, etc.; to muddy; (in later use sometimes more generally) to stir up, disturb. Also with up. Now chiefly U.S.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > pollute or defile [verb (transitive)] > render thick with sediment
roil1590
bepuddle1642
rile1823
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 314 ‘Don't you rile the water.’.. This word seems to have been transplanted to America.
1837 J. C. Neal in Flowers of Fiction 365/1 No doubt existed in the minds of his fellow-boarders, that the well of his good spirits had been ‘riled’.
1854 T. W. Brown Why I am Temperance Man 356 Minnows..that swarm by, riling the water terribly.
1884 G. S. Streatfeild Lincolnshire & Danes 353 To rile water, in Essex and Suffolk, means to make it muddy.
1942 Emmetsburg (Iowa) Thursday Reporter 5 Feb. 3/4 A storm came up, riling the water so he couldn't find his way back to the boat.
1992 J. Iron Eye Dudley Choteau Creek 101 I..walked to the spring and very carefully filled them [sc. jugs],..trying not to rile the water.
2001 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 26 July The storm events..riled the lake water enough to cause a bloom of algae to occur.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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