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ripˈroarious, a. orig. U.S.
Also -rorious.
[f. rip v.2, after uproarious.]
Boisterous, violent.
1830N.Y. Constellation 11 Sept. 2/5 The English traveller had put up at a little log tavern on the banks of the Savannah, where the riproarious conduct took place. 1840Congress Globe 2 Apr. 376/1 Here and there a gentleman from both political parties, who had been drawn out by curiosity to witness their riproarious proceedings [at the Whig ‘powwows’]. 1855Haliburton Nature & Human N. I. 58 That's because you..never saw a riprorious hurricane in all your life. 1890Harper's Mag. Apr. 796/2 His waning buzz of rip-roarious approbation. 1948R. W. Chapman Lexicography 6 The Dictionary of American English..stopped at 1900, before the trickle of that rip-roarious idiom became a flood. 1975J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy iii. 57 It was one of those rare books which, while enjoying riproarious popular success, at the same time owns sufficient intrinsic merit to achieve among the critical a kind of classic status straight away. |