Anglish Slang Wordbook/R

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Anglish	sp.	English
Rags	n	Clothes
Rain blows	phr	To hit several times in quick succession
Rainbow's end	n	Hospital mortuary, especially one that it cares for infants and young children.
Rainbow sheep	n	A euphemistic change to the traditional nursery rhyme of a black sheep, white sheep to a multicolored one of the rainbow. A rainbow sheep is someone who takes political correctness to the extreme; reads way too much into perfectly innocent statements. The rainbow sheep will find something racist/sexist/generally non-political correct in almost anything, and causes annoyance by constantly telling people off and trying to censor things when it's not necessary.
Rain cats and dogs	phr	To rain very hard
Rake over the coals	phr	To reprimand; to reprove
Rake off	phr	An illegitimate profit; a share in money obtain by questionable methods
Rammer	n	An arm
Rat	n	An informer; a betrayer
Raven	n	A funeral undertaker. In a way the raven whose carrion-eating nature is used to offer (ironic) support for the undertaker. The raven also bluntly identifies with the cultural meaning of the funeral as a consumer good that defines its place.
Raw	adj	Unfair, usually in the expression "a raw deal"
Readying	adj	Making ready; preparing
Recklesome	adj	Reckless
Red-blooded	adj	Vigorous, energetic, courageous
Red death	n	Molten lava
Red dog	n	Prickly heat
Red eye	phr	Ketchup; tomato sauce
Red horn	n	The saxophone
Redneck	n	A rustic, an uncouth person.
Red-necked	adj	Ill-tempered, angry
Red-pipe	n	Artery.
Red sea	n	The throat
Rib	vb	To tease, annoy, send up.
Ride Old Smokey	phr	To be executed in and by the electric chair.
Right	adj	Sympathetic; friendly, fair
Right as rain	phr	Absolutely correct
Right-hand man	phr	A trusted assistant; assistant foreman
Ringman	n	A boxer, fighter; prizefighter
Ring off	phr	Stop talking; keep still
Ring the glim	phr	To turn on the light
Riser	n	That which stirs one to action; a galvaniser
Road show	phr	A traveling show
Roar	vb	To complain
Rope in	phr	To defraud a person; to inveigle, decoy, or swindle
Rotten	adj	Inferior or worthless, as "That was a rotten show."
Rotten apple	phr	A bad, untrustworthy inividual
Rotten deal	phr	Unfair treatment
Rotter	n	A niggardly person
Rot Welsh	n	Slang, street yelp, weed-words, street talk.
Rough going	phr	A hard and trying situation
Roughhouse	n	A noisy carousal; violent quarreling or fighting; to carry on in such a manner
Roughneckness	n	Coarseness; vulgarity; brutality
Rough string	phr	A partly trained team of workers, sportsmen or any group
Rough up	phr	To treat one harshly
Run at the mouth	phr	To talk excessively
Run away with the show	phr	To attract much attention to oneself; to be a standout
Run it into the ground	phr	To overdo; to carry it too far
Running towards the light	phr	Dying, in the death throes, moribund.
Run ragged	phr	Exhausted; fatigued
Run up against	phr	To meet with a person or problem, especially by chance.
Rust	n	Money.