The Devil's Dictionary: Ribroaster
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
RIBROASTER
-n.
Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable by Georgius Coadjutor, one of the most fastidious writers of the fifteenth century - commonly, indeed, regarded as the founder of the Fastidiotic School.
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