Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
ronion .
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- noun A
mangy orscabby creature .
Etymologies
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French rogne scab, mange.
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Examples
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Then it "bit," as it were, into the rudder post, and she just felt it -- but only just -- the ronyon!
Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911
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IV. ii.195 (284,2) [ronyon!] _Ronyon_, applied to a woman, means, as far as can be traced, much the same with _scall_ or _scab_ spoken of a man.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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[_Beating him_] Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you polecat, you ronyon! out, out!
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
sionnach commented on the word ronyon
a mangy or scabby creature.
October 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word ronyon
*looks around*
October 14, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word ronyon
(noun) - (1) From the French rogne, the scab or scurf. A term of contempt, applied to a female, as "scurvy fellow" was similarly applied to a male, and both derived from the same French origin, and neither having particular reference to size. "Aroint thee, witch! the rump-fed ronyon cries." Macbeth.
--William Toone's Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete Words, 1832
(2) The male sex organ.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1914
January 16, 2018