rope-ripe

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Deserving of being hanged. obsolete
    — 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.
  2. Punishable by being hanged. obsolete
    — 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[…]

词形变化

more rope-ripe comparative most rope-ripe superlative roperipe alternative

词汇关系

近义词
hangworthy gallows-ripe

词源

From rope + ripe.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary