raughty

English

Adjective

raughty (comparative raughtier, superlative raughtiest)

1. Alternative spelling of rorty
   • 1899, Richard Whiteing, 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.’

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