Crossword clues for ribald
ribald
- Train regularly plain blue
- To tease a lord is obscene
- Like some limericks
- Like burlesque shows
- Amusingly coarse
- Like vulgar humor
- Humorously vulgar
- Vulgar but funny
- Raunchy and irreverent
- Like some Rabelais works
- Humorously dirty
- Crudely comical
- Crude, as humor
- Crude and vulgar
- Bordering on obscene
- A little crude
- R-rated, as humor
- Bringing a blush to the cheek, maybe
- Like Playboy cartoons
- Blue
- Blush-inducing
- Coarsely jocular
- Vulgarly jocular
- Gross
- Rabelaisian
- Coarse, as humor
- Make fun of a learner? Daughter's mean
- Coarsely humorous
- Coarse Italian patriot, somewhat
- Regularly rail, plain coarse
- Blair's dodgy dossier initially offensive
- Architects presented with line drawing originally blue
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ribald \Rib"ald\, n. [OE. ribald, ribaud, F. ribaud, OF. ribald,
ribault, LL. ribaldus, of German origin; cf. OHG hr[=i]pa
prostitute. For the ending -ald cf. E. Herald.]
A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow.
--Spenser. Pope.
Ribald was almost a class name in the feudal system . .
. He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . .
It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly
became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal.
--Earle.
Ribald \Rib"ald\, a. Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.
The busy day,
Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, from ribald, ribaud (n.), mid-13c., "a rogue, ruffian, rascall, scoundrell, varlet, filthie fellow" [Cotgrave], from Old French ribaut, ribalt "rogue, scoundrel, lewd lover," also as an adjective, "wanton, depraved, dissolute, licentious," of uncertain origin, perhaps (with suffix -ald) from riber "be wanton, sleep around, dally amorously," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German riban "be wanton," literally "to rub," possibly from the common euphemistic use of "rub" words to mean "have sex"), from Proto-Germanic *wribanan, from PIE root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).
Wiktionary
a. coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way. n. An individual who is filthy or vulgar in nature.
WordNet
Usage examples of "ribald".
I would fain tickle his long ears with ribald rhyme, and hearken to the barbarous braying forth of his asinine reflections!
He stood up and strode toward the bawd, ignoring the shouts and ribald comments.
As the two ships came within hailing distance the crews swarmed into the rigging and lined the bulwarks to shout ribald banter across the water.
There had been a ribald joke passed around when Boone Markland married wispy little Annie Lou Breen.
Among their members were the violent and thieving ex-soldier rufflers, the horse-thieving priggers, the soap-frothing grantners, and the dummerers who mutely mouthed and feebly gestured for their coins but in the security of Whitefriars told riotously ribald tales and slapped their sturdy thighs in high glee.
Laying her head in her rounded arms she wept, until distant shouts of ribald revelry roused her to her own danger.
He was well aware that this operation was being viewed on the security cams, could imagine the guards watching with interest and ribald jocularity.
He was the one who had been kind to her when the cook and his assistants were down making ribald jokes in very bad taste.
They were married by a justice of the peace in a three-minute ceremony and then were swept off by Al and his wife for a wedding luncheon, Al making ribald remarks about the amount of Dom Perignon Keith was consuming.
The troopers in the back of the truck and the heavy machine-gunner craned forward, grinning and calling ribald comment.
Jones was drunker than anybody, reeling about the room, good-naturedly banging the men on the back, kissing the ladies' hands, singing songs rather too ribald for the tastes of the church crowdalthough like good Christians they forgave him when they discovered the quality of his liquorand buttonholing community leaders to express his confidence in the American way and the blessings it had brought to him on this Christmas Eve.
Since the Japs ap-peared illogically unwilling to surrender, the naval bombarders set about annihilating them with an oddly good-humored, ribald ferocity.
Comstock had spent twenty years using his congressionally mandated (and constitutionally quite questionable) powers to persecute zealously anyone who dealt in contraceptive devices, pregnancy abortions, ribald literature and photographs, and anything else that met his rather expansive definition of “obscene.
When I think of a perfectly good, well-behaved ship consorting with ribald, rowdy actors .
Among their members were the violent and thieving ex-soldier rufflers, the horse-thieving priggers, the soap-frothing grantners, and the dummerers who mutely mouthed and feebly gestured for their coins but in the security of Whitefriars told riotously ribald tales and slapped their sturdy thighs in high glee.