"Rantipole" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... romping boy or girl; also a gadabout dissipated woman. To ride rantipole; the same as riding ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... dogs; some that were to accompany us being eager to set off, and others that were to stay at home being whipped back to their kennels. In short, for once, the good squire's mansion might have been taken as a good specimen of one of the rantipole establishments of the good ...
— Bracebridge Hall • Washington Irving
... what is called a good boy; he never soiled his clothes, as I did. I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom any thing was good enough. But when I saw my brother tricked out in new clothes, and his old duds covering me, like a scarecrow, I appeal to any honourable mind whether it was in human nature to feel otherwise than I did, without possessing an angelic disposition, ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat |
