Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who plays rigs; a joker; a jester.
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This, and my being esteemd a pretty good riggite, that is, a jocular verbal satirist, supported my consequence in the society.
Paras. 51-100 1909
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This, and my being esteem'd a pretty good riggite, that is, a jocular verbal satirist, supported my consequence in the society.
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This, and my being esteem'd a pretty good riggite, that is, a jocular verbal satirist, supported my consequence in the society.
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This, and my being esteem'd a pretty good riggite, that is, a jocular verbal satirist, supported my consequence in the society.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1748
qms commented on the word riggite
Though Franklin was pleased to ignite
The colonists' spirit to fight,
When not incendiary
Old Ben was very merry -
A maker of mischief, a riggite.
September 28, 2015