ronyon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ronyon
1590–1600; perhaps < French rogne mange
Example Sentences
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Ronion, Ronyon, run′yun, n. a mangy, scabby animal or person.
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And cursing clans that felt the heat That dwale obscured in shadows vague, Clash thro' the broken forest boughs Until each ronyon's stuck in loam.
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Then it "bit," as it were, into the rudder post, and she just felt it—but only just—the ronyon!
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Ronyon, applied to a woman, means, as far as can be traced, much the same with scall or scab spoken of a man.
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A Saylors Wife had Chestnuts in her Lappe, And mouncht, & mouncht, and mouncht: Giue me, quoth I. Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpe-fed Ronyon cryes.
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