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roperipe

roperipe is the alternative form of rope-ripe.

Meaning of rope-ripe

Adjective

rope-ripe (comparative more rope-ripe, superlative most rope-ripe)

  1. (obsolete) Of a person: deserving of being hanged.
    • Sometymes our coyne, could stop a gappe, / And purchace pardon by a traine: / But gallows lucke, and ropripe happe, / At length was gwerdon for our paine.1579, Thomas Churchyard, “A Pirates Tragedie”, in A General Rehearsall of Warres, called Churchyard's Choise
  2. (obsolete) Of an action: punishable by being hanged.
    • Therefore the reporting of our tale, may ſone appere plain if we firſt expreſſe our minde in plaine words, and not ſeeke theſe roperipe termes, which betraie rather a foole, then commende a wiſe man[…]1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1909, page 107

Forms of roperipe

comparativemore roperipe
superlativemost roperipe

Questions about roperipe

What is roperipe the alternative form of?
Roperipe is the alternative form of rope-ripe.

Words near roperipe in the dictionary

  1. roper
  2. Roper Gulf
  3. Roper River Creole
  4. roper-in
  5. roperies
  6. roperipe
  7. ropers
  8. ropers-in
  9. ropery
  10. ropes
  11. ropes course

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