rope-ripe
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rope-ripe
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From rope + ripe.
adjective more rope-ripe · most rope-ripe · roperipe
- Of a person: deserving of being hanged. 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.
- Of an action: punishable by being hanged. 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[…]
Similar: gallows-ripe, hangworthy
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adjective
Similar: gallows-ripe, hangworthy
Talk about this word "rope-ripe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/rope-ripe. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. rope-ripe. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/rope-ripe "rope-ripe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/rope-ripe.Cite this
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title = {rope-ripe},
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