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ropeable, a. Austr. and N.Z. slang.|ˈrəʊpəb(ə)l|
Also ropable.
[f. rope v.1 + -able.]
Requiring to be roped; intractable, wild; violently angry.
1874C. de Boos Congewoi Corr. 195, I don't know a nastier smell than the smeller new togs just fresh from the tailor's goose, and the thoughter that amost made me ropable. 1891Melbourne Argus 10 Oct. 13/4 The service has shown itself so ‘ropeable’ heretofore that one experiences..satisfaction in seeing it roped. 1898‘R. Boldrewood’ Romance of Canvass Town 322 Your Aunt would be ropeable. 1919H. Lawson Coll. Verse (1969) III. 385 Don't get ropable, or moony—and, above all, don't get spoony. 1955P. White Tree of Man (1956) 278, I often remember how you broke that washstand at Yuruga. Mother was ropeable. 1957D. Niland Call me when Cross turns Over (1958) 216 God, she thought, as she sat down, he's ropable. 1958N.Z. Listener 16 May 21/3 There was ― with a walking stick, his leg in plaster. And was he ropeable! He came down and ripped into them: ‘Who do you think you're going to play—a kindergarten? You're playing New Zealand. Now get cracking.’ 1963J. Cantwell No Stranger to Flame viii. 125 She was going to have my kid, but she dropped it when another bloke put the acid on. I got ropeable and did her. |