Ronʹyon or Ronion.
A term of contempt to a woman. It is the French rogneux (scabby, mangy).
“You hag, you baggage, you polecat, you ronyon! out, out!”—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2r
“‘Aroint thee, witch!ʹ the rump-fed ronyon cries.ʹ”
A term of contempt to a woman. It is the French rogneux (scabby, mangy).
“You hag, you baggage, you polecat, you ronyon! out, out!”—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2r
“‘Aroint thee, witch!ʹ the rump-fed ronyon cries.ʹ”
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.