Meaning of rispid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Rugose, rough (having an uneven surface).
   formal, obsolete
2. Harsh, rude.
   nonstandard

Examples

“[…] seeds in twos, threes, or fives under each scale, with their wing appendage small, and the shell thin and rispid.”

“The desperate Youth, livid, rispid, addressed the Maiden, clutching the rails of the garden fence.”

“Or if every morning you had to contend with the rispid memory of decades of bristles.”

“The philosophy behind the theory is of course the object of lively, sometimes rispid, debate, and some considerations on that can be found in the book by Lawrence Sklar.”

“I dont know what happens to US Army, they’re all very rispid… anyway, had to leave fast and went north.”

CEFR level