The Devil's Dictionary: Ribroaster

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
RIBALDRY
RICE-WATER

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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