rudesby
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Quoth the merchant to himself, "This wildling is a rudesby and a maggotty head.
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- A rude, boisterous, or turbulent fellow. To give my hand, opposed against my heart, Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen. Shak., T. of the S., iii. 210.
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But the rudesby was too old to be served as he had served the schoolmaster!
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock -
Quoth the merchant to himself, "This wildling is a rudesby and a maggotty head.
— Arabian nights. English -
That I should cleave the rudesby to the earth
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays -
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."
— The Monastery
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