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riding rantipole

riding rantipole is the present participle and gerund 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 riding rantipole

What is riding rantipole the present participle and gerund of?
Riding rantipole is the present participle and gerund of ride rantipole.

Words near riding rantipole in the dictionary

  1. riding or dying
  2. riding out
  3. riding out the storm
  4. riding over
  5. riding pillion
  6. riding rantipole
  7. riding rhyme
  8. riding rhymes
  9. riding robe
  10. riding robes
  11. riding roughshod over

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