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Definition of Rouncy
1. n. A common hackney horse; a nag.
Definition of Rouncy
1. Noun. (context: now historical) A horse, especially a common riding-horse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rouncy
1. a riding-horse [n ROUNCIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rouncy
Literary usage of Rouncy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"Ant. I. 123). Ther sit an old cherl in a /»lake luire (WRIGHT, Polit. S. p. 156.).
He rood upon a rouncy . ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"Miss rouncy, I gather, was the confidante of the other? ... Miss rouncy is an
uncommon pretty hand, whereas the other one makes dreadful work of the writing ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"Heard your man had been hankering about my servant —didn't know myself what was
going on until Miss Fotheringay and Miss rouncy had the row about the ..."
4. The Antiquary (1873)
"In his useful glossary to The Canterbury Tales, Mr. Wright says, " rouncy (AN) " = "a
common hackney horse ; " and again, in his Dictionary of Obsolete ..."
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