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- ropy (comparative ropier or more ropy, superlative ropiest or most ropy) Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
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Sep 10, 2007 · To mean 'sketchy' or 'rough', lack of style.
Sep 20, 2018 · If you weren't quite sure of what that particular word's definition is — or you're unclear on terms like felching, docking, or queening, for that matter — I've written a near-comprehensive...
In ‘Chambers Slang Dictionary’, Jonathon Green suggests a derivation from ‘roup’, a form of catarrh and originally a disease of poultry. From the late 18th century it was used, according to Green, to describe an object or person that was ‘second-rate, inadequate, run-down, etc’ and came in the 1940s and 1950s to be applied to people ...
- The OED (second edition) says the adjective ropy (ropey) comes from rope and the first meaning given is: 1.a forming or developing viscid, glutinou...
- Certain bacterial infections of beer result in viscous, glutinous strands as described in the OED quotation above, as well as spoiling the flavour....
- It seems fairly conclusive from the OED that modern use of the term began in the RAF in 1941. (The OED does produce a sole example dating from 1891...
- The French use the word 'roupie' meaning to snivel or a runny nose and this word is used in the phrase 'roupie de sasonnet' indicating something wo...
- If you have ever let a bowl of soup go bad you might have seen it form a distinctive texture, a little like segments of rope floating in it. Rope s...
- I wondered if it had something to do with ships. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, most of the worlds cargo ship were built in th...
- It’s to do with the string that were traditionally used to support mattresses. If they were loose, you’d feel ropey.
Examples of ropy. He tried to save a ropy secondary bank, which is now called a hedge fund, and reduced interest rates three times in two weeks. Some of the piers are getting pretty ropy. What is unbelievable today is the sheer hypocrisy of a party that has such a catalogue of ropy practices in local government.
The meaning of ROPY is capable of being drawn into a thread : viscous; also : tending to adhere in stringy masses. How to use ropy in a sentence.
There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective ropy. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Mar 21, 2024 · ropy (comparative ropier or more ropy, superlative ropiest or most ropy) (British, colloquial) Of poor quality; in poor health. Synonyms: inferior, second-rate, shabby, unwell
