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Definition of Ribald
1. Adjective. Humorously vulgar. "Ribald language"
2. Noun. A ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language.
Definition of Ribald
1. n./ A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow.
2. a. Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.
Definition of Ribald
1. Adjective. Coarsely, vulgarly or lewdly humorous. ¹
2. Noun. A person who is filthy or vulgar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ribald
1. one who uses crude language [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribald
Literary usage of Ribald
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and in 1901 concerning clerical conventions and legal societies. to the Church.
These ribald foes spread desolation over a good part of ..."
2. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... young men bear this on their shoulders to the tomb, preceded by a company of
others who, hand in hand and some ten abreast, dance and sing ribald songs. ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... subject for the jeers and ribald mirth of coarse-minded women no better than
herself. Such characters were also taken to the ducking stool and ..."
4. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"fine and imprisonment, as the punishment of those who should treat the question
of the Sacrament with irreverence, either in sermons or in. ribald treatises ..."
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