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Definition of Roopy
1. hoarse [adj ROOPIER, ROOPIEST] - See also: hoarse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roopy
Literary usage of Roopy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"roopy ... Aa's that roopy aa can hardly taak." ROOSTER, a low lying, boggy piece
of land. ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"Aa's that roopy aa can hardly taak." ROOSTER, a low lying, boggy piece of land.
" Thor's a nest o' greys doon i' the rooster there."—Shepherd at Woodburn. ..."
3. Yorkshire Folk-talk: With Characteristics of Those who Speak it in the North by Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris (1892)
"Our roopy friend knew better than to make use of such circuitous verbiage as this
clergyman did, and there could at least be no mistake with his hearers as ..."
4. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"... and the open end being sewn up, is dropped into the pan of boiling water on
the fire. roopy Hoarse. " Ye've gotten cowd, ah think, ..."
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