Rorty

Quick meaning: Rorty is an adjective meaning (British, informal) Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué.

Meaning

(British, informal) Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué.

Example Sentences

But compared with the heavy, muffling darkness of the night in which the countryside was sunk, the lights looked positively rorty

Any speed any gear it doesn't matter. The 2Eleven's got an enormous powerband huge performance and the rortiest exhaust I've heard in an Elise-based car

"Tell us a good story, Rodney — one of your rorty ones." / Mr. Rodney shrivelled. / "I fear," he murmured — "I fear I am scarcely in the — er — rorty vein to-night."

Word Forms

• rortier
• rortiest

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include raughty, routish, rowdy, roysterous, rowdyish, roytish.

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