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ˈrigsby Now dial.
Also 6 rigby.
[Cf. rig n.4 and v.4, and see -by 2.]
A wanton; a romping lad or lass.
1546Langley tr. Pol. Verg. de Invent. vii. vi. 140 These..be so light fingered and suche rigbies Children that they wil fynde two thynges, afore they lose one. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders A 2 Here dwels that towring and terrible Nimrod, that hunting rigsby Semiramis. 1691Ray N.C. Words (ed. 2) 59 A Reuling Lad; a Rigsby. 1814Pegge Suppl. Grose, Rigsby, a romping girl. York. 1838Holloway Prov. Dict., Rigsby, a hoydon. 1877Holderness Gloss., Rigsby, a romping child. |