1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Fij A rudesbie, and vnruly..man.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Gvj^v To bearebaytinges, or pricke playings, Our Rudesbies must awaye.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 77 b As he which is ceremonious may be thought to be a dissembler, so he which is not so, may be taken to be a clowne, a rudesby, or a contemner of others.

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 89 Those jangling rudesbies, titular Doctors in S. Paules time.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 10 I must forsooth be forst To giue my hand..Vnto a mad-braine rudesby, full of spleene. View more context for this quotation

1635 W. Jones Comm. Epist. St. Paul 637 He must not bee a rudesby.

1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière George Dandin ii. i. 51 in Sel. Comedies V Good b'ye, pretty Rudesbee.

1794 F. G. Waldron Heigho for Husband! ii. ii. 21 You have let my rudesby pull you about most unmercifully, child.

1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii^*. 77 Commoved by the speech of this rudesby.

1882 G. MacDonald Castle Warlock I. xviii. 289 The rudesby was too old to be served as he had served the schoolmaster!

1945 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 16 Nov. 6 Had it not been for a rudesby or two in the Angelo secondary who caved in the side of the Bovine forward wall for two touches in the first period, the Big Springers might have scored a victory.

1988 A. N. Wilson Incline our Hearts v. 177 So it is that teenage sons whose fathers know them as mindless rudesbies are found in other contexts to be ingenious workers, clubbable companions, affectionate lovers.

2000 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 24 Dec. 24 John Grigg himself.., far from being a republican rudesby, is the most courteous of men.