ˈripsnorting, a. orig. U.S.
Also rip-snorting.
[f. prec.]
= rip-roaring, riproaring a.
| 1846 Yale Lit. Mag. June 336 What a rip-snorting red head you have got! 1904 Topeka (Kansas) Capital 2 June 4 It is now stated that Bryan will make a rip-snorting speech at the St. Louis convention. 1926 Spectator 10 July 44/1 It's a ripsnorting, red-blooded show—a wow. 1926 [see hotsy-totsy a.]. 1956 N. Coward South Sea Bubble i. i. 12 You're a rip-snorting old careerist, darling. 1959 Daily Mail 17 Feb. 4/5 The Count Basie riff-number Alright, Okay, You Win, with ripsnorting backing. 1976 P. Henissart Winter Quarry xxvii. 276 These ripsnorting professional anti-communists. 1978 Detroit Free Press 14 Apr. 15b/4 A ripsnorting cockroach race, with the men on their hands and knees, urging their bugs down makeshift lanes. |
Hence (as a back-formation) ˈripsnort v., to go boisterously, to rollick; ˌripˈsnortingly adv.
| 1974 Publishers Weekly 24 June 59/2 It's a definitive book, ripsnortingly adult. 1975 C. A. Haddad Moroccan vii. 83 ‘Come to Daddy,’ I said..she clambered on my back and together we ripsnorted our way to Ilanit. 1979 ‘A. Hailey’ Overload ii. x. 159 Water which promptly became high⁓pressure steam and ripsnorted to a separate superheater section. |