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roinish

roinish is the obsolete form of roynish.

Meaning of roynish

Adjective

roynish (comparative more roynish, superlative most roynish)

  1. (obsolete) Mangy; scabby.
    Synonyms:
    reef
  2. Mean, paltry, vulgar or troublesome.
    • My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft
      Your Grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    Synonyms:
    contemptible

Forms of roinish

comparativemore roinish
superlativemost roinish

Questions about roinish

What is roinish the obsolete form of?
Roinish is the obsolete form of roynish.

Words near roinish in the dictionary

  1. roilsome
  2. roily
  3. roin
  4. roined
  5. roining
  6. roinish
  7. roins
  8. ROIP
  9. Roiphe
  10. ROIs
  11. rois fainéants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roinish (page history and authors); roynish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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