irp
See also: IRP
English
Alternative forms
- irpe
Etymology
Unknown
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɜː(ɹ)p/
Noun
irp (plural irps)
- (obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body.
- 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
- Smirks and irps and all affected humours.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “irp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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