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sionnach commented on the word rigmutton
a wanton wench that is ready to ride upon men's backs, or else passively be their rompstall.
October 31, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word rigmutton
This sounds as though it comes from a very precise taxonomy of wanton wenches.
October 31, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word rigmutton
(noun) - (1) A wanton wench that is ready to ride upon the men's backs, or else passively to be their rompstall. The word mutton, when applied to a woman, whether alone or as part of a compound epithet, seems always to have been opprobrious, as in Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona: "Ay, sir; I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a laced mutton; and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost mutton, nothing for my labour." From rig, rigging, ready to bestride any inactive stallion, and give him a quickening spur.
--Frederick Elworthy's Specimens of English Dialects: Devonshire, 1879
(2) Rigmutton rumpstall, a wanton girl. West Country.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
January 17, 2018