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rantipoll

rantipoll is the alternative form of rantipole.

Meaning of rantipole

Noun

rantipole (plural rantipoles)

  1. A rude, unruly young person.
    • Tom was to be sure, what is called a good boy; he never soiled his clothes, as I did. I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom any thing was good enough. But when I saw my brother tricked out in new clothes, and his old duds covering me like a scarecrow, I appeal to any honourable mind...1829, [Frederick Marryat], chapter V, in The Naval Officer; or, Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 150
  2. A rakish person.
    • 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...
    • 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.1757, by a Lady, A Letter to the Natural Historians, containing some Account of the Rantipole, etc., The London Chronicle, number 11, Jan 22–25
  3. (archaic) A prostitute.
    • Farewell to the change, / Where rantipoles range; / Farewell cold tea, / And ratafie, / Hide-park, where pride / In coaches ride,1740, “Song XLV”, in The Tea-Table Miscellany: or, a Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English, 10th edition, volume 3, London: A. Millar, page 265
  4. (archaic) A sex position with the woman on top of the man.
    Synonyms:
    cowgirl, St. George

See all 6 meanings of rantipole

Forms of rantipoll

pluralrantipolls

Questions about rantipoll

What is rantipoll the alternative form of?
Rantipoll is the alternative form of rantipole.

Words near rantipoll in the dictionary

  1. rantings
  2. rantipole
  3. rantipoled
  4. rantipoles
  5. rantipoling
  6. rantipoll
  7. rantipolls
  8. rantish
  9. Rantism
  10. rantistirion
  11. rantle-tree

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