'Ribald' definitions:
Definition of 'ribald'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Ribald'
From: GCIDE
- Ribald \Rib"ald\, n. [OE. ribald, ribaud, F. ribaud, OF. ribald, ribault, LL. ribaldus, of German origin; cf. OHG hr[imac]pa prostitute. For the ending -ald cf. E. Herald.] A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. --Spenser. Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Ribald was almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal. --Earle. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ribald'
From: GCIDE
- Ribald \Rib"ald\, a. Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene. [1913 Webster]
- The busy day, Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ribald'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abusive,
- arriviste,
- Babbitt,
- bawdy,
- blasphemous,
- blue,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- cad,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- churl,
- clown,
- coarse,
- comminatory,
- contumelious,
- crass,
- crude,
- cursing,
- damnatory,
- denunciatory,
- devil,
- dirty,
- dysphemistic,
- earthy,
- enfant terrible,
- epicier,
- epithetic,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- execratory,
- Fescennine,
- filthy,
- foul,
- foul-mouthed,
- foul-spoken,
- foul-tongued,
- fulminatory,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- gross,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- imprecatory,
- impure,
- ithyphallic,
- lewd,
- looby,
- loud,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- lurid,
- maledictory,
- meretricious,
- mischief,
- mucker,
- nasty,
- nouveau riche,
- obscene,
- offensive,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- Philistine,
- pornographic,
- profane,
- Rabelaisian,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- raunchy,
- raw,
- risque,
- rogue,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- rude,
- ruffian,
- salacious,
- scalawag,
- scatologic,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- slyboots,
- smoking-room,
- smutty,
- sultry,
- unchaste,
- unclean,
- unprintable,
- unrepeatable,
- upstart,
- vile,
- vituperative,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- yokel