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Ripper   Listen
noun
Ripper, Ripler  n.  (O.E. Law) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. (Obs.) "But what's the action we are for now? Robbing a ripper of his fish."






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"Ripper" Quotes from Famous Books



... each foot he'd had a slipper To Troukachevsky (who was saved) The husband would have p'rhaps behaved Much in the style of Jack the Ripper. He put to flight the dilettante (Who hadn't finished half the andante), But feared the servants' mockings Should they see him in his stockings, Racing along the corridor:— Not that he thought it horrid, or Harsh to transfix him with a dagger, (He could not bear the fiddler's swagger), But felt ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, July 5, 1890 • Various

... would have been all right—Mrs. Anstey is a dear, and Olive of course is a ripper—and we'd have had a very jolly little party, but unfortunately in the middle of it who should arrive but Lady Martin and ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes

... of the celestial, the allegorical, and the real personages, with a certain solemnity and gracefulness quite indescribable. The virtues, for instance, are not so much allegorical persons as spiritual appearances, and the whole of the ripper part of the picture ...
— Legends of the Madonna • Mrs. Jameson



Words linked to "Ripper" :   Jack the Ripper, manslayer, bodice ripper



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