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ridden rantipole

ridden rantipole is the past participle of ride rantipole.

Meaning of ride rantipole

Verb

ride rantipole (third-person singular simple present rides rantipole, present participle riding rantipole, simple past rode rantipole, past participle ridden rantipole)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with the woman positioned on top of the man.
    • Oft in the Streets I'm ſeen to ride / Exalted, as it were for Pride; / And ſome will have it that I ſtroll, / Like Boys, when riding Rantipole[.]1772, Samuel Bentley, “Prize Ænigma”, in The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's Almanack, volume 69, page 31

Questions about ridden rantipole

What is ridden rantipole the past participle of?
Ridden rantipole is the past participle of ride rantipole.

Words near ridden rantipole in the dictionary

  1. ridden or died
  2. ridden out
  3. ridden out the storm
  4. ridden over
  5. ridden pillion
  6. ridden rantipole
  7. ridden roughshod over
  8. ridden rusty
  9. ridden Saint George
  10. ridden shotgun
  11. ridden St George

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