rammish

[ram-ish]

adjective

1. resembling a ram.

2. having a disagreeable taste or smell; rank.

rammish

/ ˈræmɪʃ /

adjective

1. like a ram, esp in being lustful or foul-smelling

Other Word Forms

• rammishness noun
• rammishly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of rammish¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; ram ¹, -ish ¹

Example Sentences

He had peeped into a large but low room, the middle of which was filled by a huge round stove or clay oven that reached to the ceiling; round this wet clothes were drying, some on lines, and some more compendiously on rustics: these latter habiliments, impregnated with the wet of the day, but the dirt of a life, and lined with what another foot traveller in these parts calls "rammish clowns," evolved rank vapours and compound odours inexpressible, in steaming clouds.

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If not for that he knew the happinesse of man consisted more in auoyding the acquaintaunce of that fury, than by imbracinge, and chearishing of the same, sith hir nature is altogether like vnto Æsop’s Serpent, which being deliuered from pearill and daunger of death by the shepeheard, for recompence thereof, infected his whole house with his venomous hissing, and rammish Breath.

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Cu. ram, strong, and rammish, violent, and American slang rambunktious, obstreperous.

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Why, any sensible snout may wind Master Amoretto and his pomander, Master Recorder and his two neat's feet that wear no socks, Sir Raderic by his rammish complexion; Olet Gorgonius hircum, sicut Lupus in fabula.

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Rammish woman; a sturdy virago.

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