Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mangy, scabby animal; also, a scurvy person. Also runnion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mangy or scabby creature.
Examples
“Red Grisell, the youngest of the band, struck her comrade on the cheek -- "Faint and weary, ronion, with blood and booty in the wind!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ronion’.
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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Thrown - about tossed - Words
bal-; bol-; -bol; -ble and incau(gh)tious others
ballistic, ballad, symbol, bolide, ballet, problem, ball, parabola, parable, amphibole, boule, diabolical and 184 more...
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Strumpets, Street People, and Scallywags
Derogatory terms for your classic band of rascals and wenches
minx, bawd, harlot, harridan, rapscallion, scapegrace, scullion, slattern, strumpet, trollop, varlet, wag-halter and 26 more...
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CLEP Lit
Words I learned while studying for the Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP test.
obsequiously, abjectly, obsequious, obstreperous, extirpate, antipathy, inveterate, scrip, acquiescent, demivolte, coppice, equanimity and 18 more...
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Glosseme's Words
pusillanimous, fuliginous, nomenclature, cloture, cudgel, infra dig, aurora borealis, lexicon, domicile, lachrymose, pulchritude, veracity and 52 more...
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