Word Meanings - RIBAUDRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Ribaldry. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to RIBAUDRY)
- RIBALDRY
The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct. The ribaldry of his conversation moved Macaulay. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.