1819. Moore, Tom Crib, 51. While ribbers rung from each resounding frame.
1857. Cuthbert Bede, Verdant Green, II. iv. To one gentleman he would pleasantly observe . . . "There's a regular rib-roaster for you!"
1876. Hindley, Cheap Jack, 284. It was some time before he recovered the rib-bender he got from the fat show-*woman.
1886. Phil. Times, 6 May. There was some terrible slogging. . . . Cleary planted two rib-roasters, and a tap on Langdon's face.
1891. Lic. Vict. Gaz., 9 Feb. Repaid the compliment with another rib-bender.
Ribstone, subs. (common).—See
Pippin.
1883. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads [Punch, 11 Oct.]. 'Ow are yer, my ribstone.
Rib-tickler, subs. phr. (colloquial).—1.
Thick soup; glue
(q.v.).
2. See Rib-roast.
Rice-bags, subs. phr. (common).—1.
Trousers: see Kicks.
2. (American).—In sing. = a rice planter.
Rich, adj. and adv. (colloquial).—1.
Outrageous; (2) ridiculous;
and (3) spicy (q.v.).
c. 1350. Turnament of Totenham [Hazlitt, Early Pop. Poet., iii. 91]. Alle the wyues of Totenham come . . . To fech home thaire husbondis . . . With wispys and kixes, that was a rich sight.
1821. Egan, Life in London, II. ii. The left-hand side of the bar is a rich bit of low life.
1840. Porter, Southwestern Tales, 57. Thar we was . . . rollin' with laughin' and liquor, and thought the thing was rich.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, viii. 1. 'Was Spraggs rich?'—'Wasn't he! I have not done laughing yet. . . . Killing!. . . The richest thing you ever heard.'
1897. Mitford, Romance of Cape Frontier, ix. The notion of Allen bothering anyone to take out a bees' nest . . . struck them all as ineffably rich.
Rich-face, subs. phr. (old).—'A
Red-face.'—B. E. (c. 1696).
Richard, subs. (common).—A dictionary:
also Richard Snary
and Richardanary.—Grose.
Fr. musicien.
1622. Taylor (Water Poet), Motto, Intro., s.v. Richard Snary.
Rick-ma-Tick, subs. phr. (Scots').—1.
A concern; a business; a
thing: as 'The whole blessed
rick-ma-tick went to smash.'
2. (school).—Arithmetic.
Ricochet, adj. (American cadet).—Gay;
splendid.
Rid. To rid the stomach, verb.
phr. (common).—To vomit.
Riddlemeree, subs. (old).—See
quot.
c. 1772. Junius, Letters [Woodfall], II. 316. This style, I apprehend, Sir, is what the learned Scriblerus calls rigmarol in logic—Riddlemeree amongst School-*boys.
Ride, verb. (venery).—1. To possess
carnally; to swive (q.v.). Fr.
chevaucher (= to swive) and
chevaucherie (= a swiving) (Cotgrave,
1611; and Grose, 1785).
English synonyms (also see Greens).—To accommodate; Adamize; ballock; belly-bump (Urquhart); bitch (generic); block; bob (Fletcher); bore; bounce; brush; bull; bum; bumbaste (Urquhart); bumfiddle (Davies of Hereford); bung; buttock; caress; caulk; cavault; chauver; chuck; clicket (Flet-
