risp

• resp (Scotland)

From Middle English rispen, from Old Norse rispa (“scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *ripsōną (“to rend; rip; tear open”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyb- (“to tear; snatch; pluck; reap”). Compare also Old Norse rifsa (“to plunder; reave”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪsp/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsp

risp (third-person singular simple present risps, present participle risping, simple past and past participle risped)

1. To rub together, to rasp or grate.

risp (plural risps)

1. A rubbing or grating together.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN:

     [T]hat Greek waste silent but for the risp of the tettix and the wash of listless wind through the spare grass.

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