Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Ripening early.
- noun A fruit or vegetable that ripens early.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season: as, rareripe peaches.
- noun An early fruit, particularly a kind of peach which ripens early.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.
- noun An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
onion ,peach , etc. thatripens early.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And we see that Julia carries a crimson face, and smiling look; although she stoops considerably, and her long arms and loping gait, make her appear to many, ungainly; she is ruddy as a rareripe peach, and smiles from her forehead and eyes, and face and mouth.
Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee
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At thirteen, that peculiar time when the young turn to faith, this perverse rareripe was so filled with doubt that it ran over and he stood in the slop.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Elbert Hubbard 1885
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But woe betide Alexander and all rareripe Bostonians who mistake the scaffolding for the edifice.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Elbert Hubbard 1885
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He was a rareripe, and showed strength and decision far beyond his years.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885
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I do not believe, with the dictionaries, that it had ever anything to do with the Icelandic _hrar_ (_raw_), as it plainly has not in _rareripe_, which means earlier ripe, -- President Lincoln said of
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
hernesheir commented on the word rareripe
I'm an adjective you don't meet every day. ratheripe, rathripe.
December 19, 2013