Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rude, boisterous, or turbulent fellow.
Wiktionary
- n. A rude person
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An uncivil, turbulent fellow.
Examples
“Quoth the merchant to himself, This wildling is a rudesby and a maggotty head.”
“But the rudesby was too old to be served as he had served the schoolmaster!”
“Halbert, "doubt not that thy faithful Affability will be more commoved by the speech of this rudesby, than the bright and serene moon is perturbed by the baying of the cottage-cur, proud of the height of his own dunghill, which, in his conceit, lifteth him nearer unto the majestic luminary.”
“Quoth the merchant to himself, "This wildling is a rudesby and a maggotty head.”
“That I should cleave the rudesby to the earth”
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays
“Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen;”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rudesby’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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interesting words
erstwhile, temerity, lacuna, tacit, timbre, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, ersatz, sine qua non and 263 more...
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derogatory terms I should use more often
assmarmot, scuzzbucket, scumbag, sleazebag, slimeball, swamp donkey, barathrum, cacafuego, clarty-paps, comprachico, ephemeromorph, creodont and 162 more...
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Unsavoury Types
insults, epithets, etc.
drotchel, drossel, drazel, flutch, lollard, scobberlotcher, ragabash, faineant, cad, buffoon, martinet, tosspot and 110 more...
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Ye Olde Shouting Match
From a list of insulting words that you might encounter in a Middle English shouting match.
The list was given to me by my English teacher.bawdy, bunch-backed, canker-blossom, brazen, clay-brained, clotpole, churlish, dog-hearted, crutch, distempered, empty-hearted, cutpurse and 78 more...
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