Citations:rorty

English citations of rorty and raughty

Adjective: "boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué"

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• c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎^[1], published 1896, page 161:

  I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on.

• 1898, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Londoners, page 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 — er — rorty vein to-night."

• 1899, Richard Whiteing, chapter IX, in No. 5 John Street‎^[2], page 95:

  She is Boadicea, skipping centuries of time—Boadicea, strong of her hands, and usually not a bit too clean of them, splendid in reasonless passion, decidedly foul-mouthed—no ‘British warrior queen’ of nursery recitation, but a right-down ‘raughty gal,’ leading her alley to battle against the Roman ‘slops.’

• 1932, Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm:

  But compared with the heavy, muffling darkness of the night in which the countryside was sunk, the lights looked positively rorty

• 1972, Private Eye, numbers 263-288:

  Unsuitable for family motorists. Only Custom Car gives you the real dirt on the fastest, the loudest, the rortiest, ....

• 1996 August 3, “From ragtops to riches Compact SLK doesn't leave out...”, in Toronto Star:

  If it isn't ultimately as keen-edged and involving as some of its rortier forebears, the SLK makes a great deal more sense for the '90s.

• 2007 May 31, “Lotus 2-Eleven - Road Test First Drive”, in Autocar:

  Any speed any gear it doesn't matter. The 2Eleven's got an enormous powerband huge performance and the rortiest exhaust I've heard in an Elise-based car