rantipole

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I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom anything was good enough.

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  1. Wild; roving; rakish. Out upon't, at years of discretion, and comport yourself at this rantipole rate! Congreve, Way of the World, iv. 10. This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallantries. Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 431.
  2. A rude, romping boy or girl; a wild, reckless fellow. What strange, awkward rantipole was that I saw thee speaking to? J. Baillie. I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom anything was good enough. Marryat, Frank Mildmay, xv. (Davies.)
  3. To run about wildly. The elder was a termagant, imperious wench; she used to rantipole about the house, pinch the children, kick the servants, and torture the cats and dogs. Arbuthnot.

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  • I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom anything was good enough. —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
  • She has given up all those that I used to call her rantipole acquaintance. —  Tales and Novels — Volume 03
  • The fine lady of my day, with the unruffled insipidity of her low spirits (high spirits never came near her) and the imperturbable composure of her smooth insolence, was as unlike the rantipole, racketing high-bred woman of fashion of Sir John Vanbrugh's play as the flimsy elegance of my silver-embroidered, rose-colored tulle dress was unlike the elaborate splendor of her hooped and feathered and high-heeled, patched-and-powdered magnificence, with its falling laces and standing brocades. —  Records of a Girlhood
  • I was in town on Monday; the Duchess of Beaufort graced our loo, and made it as rantipole as a Quaker's meeting. —  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
  • This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming —  The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
 

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  1. apparently from ranty + pole. = poll, head: see poll. Cf. dodipoll.
  2. from rantipole, n.
 

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