"rorty" meaning in All languages combined

See rorty on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈɹɔːti/ Forms: rortier [comparative], rortiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔːti Etymology: 19th century UK. Unknown etymology. Farmer (1903) categorises the term as costermongers' slang. Etymology templates: {{unk|en|title=Unknown etymology}} Unknown etymology Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} rorty (comparative rortier, superlative rortiest)
  1. (British, informal) Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué. Tags: British, informal Synonyms: raughty Derived forms: rortiness, rorty bloke, rorty dasher, rorty toff

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "title": "Unknown etymology"
      },
      "expansion": "Unknown etymology",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "19th century UK. Unknown etymology. Farmer (1903) categorises the term as costermongers' slang.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rortier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rortiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "rorty (comparative rortier, superlative rortiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "rortiness"
        },
        {
          "word": "rorty bloke"
        },
        {
          "word": "rorty dasher"
        },
        {
          "word": "rorty toff"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1898, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Londoners, page 280:",
          "text": "\"Tell us a good story, Rodney — one of your rorty ones.\" / Mr. Rodney shrivelled. / \"I fear,\" he murmured — \"I fear I am scarcely in the — er — rorty vein to-night.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1932, Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm:",
          "text": "But compared with the heavy, muffling darkness of the night in which the countryside was sunk, the lights looked positively rorty",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 May 31, “Lotus 2-Eleven - Road Test First Drive”, in Autocar:",
          "text": "Any speed any gear it doesn't matter. The 2Eleven's got an enormous powerband huge performance and the rortiest exhaust I've heard in an Elise-based car",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué."
      ],
      "id": "en-rorty-en-adj-SVnWEeAA",
      "links": [
        [
          "Boisterous",
          "boisterous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, informal) Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "raughty"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɔːti/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rorty"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "rortiness"
    },
    {
      "word": "rorty bloke"
    },
    {
      "word": "rorty dasher"
    },
    {
      "word": "rorty toff"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "title": "Unknown etymology"
      },
      "expansion": "Unknown etymology",
      "name": "unk"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "19th century UK. Unknown etymology. Farmer (1903) categorises the term as costermongers' slang.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rortier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rortiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "rorty (comparative rortier, superlative rortiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with unknown etymologies",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɔːti",
        "Rhymes:English/ɔːti/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1898, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Londoners, page 280:",
          "text": "\"Tell us a good story, Rodney — one of your rorty ones.\" / Mr. Rodney shrivelled. / \"I fear,\" he murmured — \"I fear I am scarcely in the — er — rorty vein to-night.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1932, Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm:",
          "text": "But compared with the heavy, muffling darkness of the night in which the countryside was sunk, the lights looked positively rorty",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 May 31, “Lotus 2-Eleven - Road Test First Drive”, in Autocar:",
          "text": "Any speed any gear it doesn't matter. The 2Eleven's got an enormous powerband huge performance and the rortiest exhaust I've heard in an Elise-based car",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Boisterous",
          "boisterous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, informal) Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɔːti/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔːti"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "raughty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rorty"
}

Download raw JSONL data for rorty meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.