ˈrabiator Sc. rare.
[Perh. a later form of rubiator, by assoc. with rabid.]
‘A violent, noisy, greedy person’ (Jam.).
| a 1814 Watch-house ii. 1 in New Brit. Theatre I. 60 They a' barkit at me, like sae many rabiators. 1830 Galt Lawrie T. i. vii. (1849) 22 One morning that rabiator, Mr. Lapstone, came into the shop. |