Meaning of rope-ripe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Deserving of being hanged.
   obsolete
2. Punishable by being hanged.
   obsolete

Examples

“Sometymes our coyne, could stop a gappe, / And purchace pardon by a traine: / But gallows lucke, and ropripe happe, / At length was gwerdon for our paine.”

“As we argued already, Shakespeare's representation of the rope-ripe shrew likely was inspired by abundant accounts of the well-hanged and well-hung shrewmouse.”

“Therefore the reporting of our tale, may ſone appere plain if we firſt expreſſe our minde in plaine words, and not ſeeke theſe roperipe termes, which betraie rather a foole, then commende a wiſe man[…]”

“Lord, how you roule in your rope-ripe termes.”

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