roynish

• roinish

French rogneux, from rogne (“scab, mange, itch”).

roynish (comparative more roynish, superlative most roynish)

1. (obsolete) Mangy; scabby.
2. Mean, paltry, vulgar or troublesome.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 629-30:

     My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft
     Your Grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.

   • 1980, Stephen Donaldson, The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     Their voices had a roynish sound that grated on Covenant's nerves—he had too many horrid memories of urviles—but he suppressed his discomfort

• (scabby): reef, scald; see also Thesaurus:scabby
• (mean, paltry): contemptible, miserable, trashy; see also Thesaurus:despicable

• “roynish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.