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Rampalʹlian

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A term of contempt; probably it means a rampant or wanton woman; hence in A New Trick to Cheat the Devil (1639) we have this line: “And bold rampallian-like, swear and drink drunk.”

“Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian! Iʹll tickle your catastrophe.”—Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV., ii. 1.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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