Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the characteristics of a rig or romp; wanton; lewd.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Like a rig or wanton.
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- adjective obsolete Like a
rig orwanton .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She is an incarnation of the Lucretian Venus, an impossible contradiction of holiness and eroticism that prompts even the 'holy priests' of the temple to bless her when she is 'riggish' or lustful.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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And if you would have your daughter riggish, bawdry and unclean, and a filthy speaker, and suchlike, bring her up in music and dancing and my life for yours, you have won the goal.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfied; for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies; for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
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Old English cwene, akin to the etymon of queen]. rig [Middle English riggen, of uncertain derivation] dialectal English; cf. riggish ` sluttish, 'as in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, where Enobarbus speaks thus of Cleopatra:
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