;Posted on 08/20/2012 4:47:16 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 8/20/12
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
rantipole; adj, noun and verb
n. 1. A wild, romping young person. a. 1. Wild; roving; rakish. v. i. 1. To act like a rantipole. She used to rantipole about the house. - Arbuthnot.
Etymology: When in Great Expectations Charles Dickens has Pip’s ill-tempered older sister refer to him as “young Rantipole”, his readers would have known it was not a compliment. It actually refer to somebody who is wild, disorderly, rakish, ill-behaved or reckless. At the end of the nineteenth century, Dr E Cobham Brewer, the first editor of the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, remarked that “The late Emperor Napoleon III was called Rantipole, for his escapades at Strasbourg and Boulogne. In 1852 I myself saw a man commanded by the police to leave Paris within twenty-four hours for calling his dog Rantipole.” Pip and Mrs Havisham, from the 1862 edition of Great Expectations Unlike Dr Brewer, we do not believe that the word derives from the Dutch randten, to be in a state of idiocy or insanity, though it is accepted that the second half is poll, meaning the head. It is now thought the first part is from rant (or possibly the English dialect ranty, “riotous” or “wildly excited”) and that the whole is a fanciful creation by some unknown person around 1700. It was equally well known in North America (Noah Webster had the noun and verb in his dictionary of 1806) and it appears in several works by Washington Irving, including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: “This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallantries, and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments of a bear, yet it was whispered that she did not altogether discourage his hopes.” Captain Francis Grose noted in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) that to ride rantipole was the same as riding St George. This turns out to be a reference to sex with the woman on top, which Grose notes was "said to be the way to get a bishop".
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YES!! A+++
Oh that’s right - I forgot they used to live in Katy - did I mention to you that I heard one of the big Petroleum firms (like Exxon maybe?) was closing their location in Fairfax and building a 10,000 person office headquarters in north Houston? I was thinking of the influx of folks from your area when that opens
Long time no see! How are you doing?
And we'll be happy to see you, although pick a nice "cool" month to visit. :-)
Hi Rika! Good point - I don’t go outside of the air conditioning unless I have to in the summer! lol
Some on the left love to rantipole
Don’t work, just complain of the scanty dole
Using food stamps for liquor
They rave, shout and snicker
Before crawling back to their shanty hole
We’ve been able to sleep with the windows open most days this past week.
i know exactly where that facility is, it’s 2 miles from my house. we passed it on the way home from church yesterday and i actually mentioned it to xshub. i did not realize they were moving back to Houston. i think my neighbors both work for Exxon, not sure where their ofc is. no for sale sign in front of their house. they are both dr/scientist types.
i’m great, how are you doing? you haven’t been to class in FOREVER!
my SIL and i were reminiscing about the last time we visited them in Katy. it was March, it rained all week, xsboy was 17 mo old and xsteen was 4 1/2, and i went alone, bc xshub was in Australia on business and i couldn’t cope with the idea of 10 days at home alone with them. so i hauled them on the plane and we went down there and when we came back there was 20 inches of snow, and i carried xsboy up the front steps and the nice foreign cabdriver had to carry xsteen up there for me! no one was home to shovel, obviously!
Well, I just transitioned from full-time employee to full-time business owner, so things are exciting, scary, and moving 100 mph all the time! My last employer blocked FR, so I should be able to visit more often now, if my jerk of a boss will let me! LOL
WHOA! that is FANTASTIC! congrats to you!
So the democrat’s national press corpse get all rantipoles about what a foolish repubbie says, but ignores the lies that form the Obama campaign?
Yeppers!
true, but it is lamentable that republicans have such a propensity to shoot themselves in the face when they are very nearly acheiving the upper hand. A+++
the campus being built won’t be ready until 2013 or 14, can’t recall so they have a few years. 10K employees on one campus type location will be huge - like a small college campus!
Just curious, have you thanked Bammy for building that business for you yet? (Congrats on your new venture, we KNOW you built it yourself!)
what are the odds?
Well, the only time I talk to Oblabla is when I make effigies of him for the morning constitutional... (hopefully that’s not too graphic! LOL)
Hang in there. You are doing the responsible and considerate thing, trying to maintain some quality of life for her while keeping her in a safe environment.
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