raughtyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

raughty (comparative raughtier, superlative raughtiest)

1. Alternative spelling of rorty
   • 1899, Whiteing, Richard, chapter IX, in No. 5 John Street^[1], page 95:

     She is Boadicea, skipping centuries of time—Boadicea, strong of her hands, and usually not a bit too clean of them, splendid in reasonless passion, decidedly foul-mouthed—no ‘British warrior queen’ of nursery recitation, but a right-down ‘raughty gal,’ leading her alley to battle against the Roman ‘slops.’

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:rorty.