Rude vs Rantipole - What's the difference?
rude | rantipole |
bad-mannered
Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
tough, robust.
undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).
An unruly, rude young person.
A rakish person.
* 1757 , by a Lady, A Letter to the Natural Historians, containing some Account of the Rantipole, etc.'',
* 1798 , ,
To act like a rantipole.
* 1712 , , Law is a Bottomless Pit'', or ''The History of John Bull , Chapter 16:
As a proper noun rude
is settlement in croatia, near zagreb.As a noun rantipole is
an unruly, rude young person.As a verb rantipole is
to act like a rantipole.rude
English
(mismatch between senses and translations)Adjective
(er)- The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
- Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
- Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Marryat)
''The London Chronicle, number 11, Jan 22–25:
- Your modern Rantipole''''', then, is of high Birth, or considerable Fortune, or great Beauty, either of which may entitle her to do that which others are ashamed of, who have not those superb Qualifications, and enable her to reverse the true Estimation of Things, and value herself upon being good for nothing.
A young '''''Rantipole , as soon as let out of the Cage, most commonly enters the Order, and opens her first Scene of Life with the Choice of a Gallant, whom she reizes egregiously for a Number of Years, and then marries and torments him without Mercy.
He's Much To Blame, Act II, Scene I:
- For example: that my wife, Lady Vibrate, is an extravagant rackety rantipole woman of fashion, can I doubt that? No. That she squanders my money, disturbs my peace, and contradicts for contradiction's sake, can I doubt that? No.
Verb
(rantipol)- The eldest was a termagant, imperious, prodigal, lewd, profligate wench, as ever breath'd; she used to rantipole about the house, pinch the children, kick the servants, and torture the cats and dogs; …