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Adjective: "boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué"
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c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 161:I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on.
1898, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Londoners, page 280:"Tell us a good story, Rodney — one of your rorty ones." / Mr. Rodney shrivelled. / "I fear," he murmured — "I fear I am scarcely in the — er — rorty vein to-night."
1899, Richard Whiteing, chapter IX, in No. 5 John Street, page 95:She is Boadicea, skipping centuries of time—Boadicea, strong of her hands, and usually not a bit too clean of them, splendid in reasonless passion, decidedly foul-mouthed—no ‘British warrior queen’ of nursery recitation, but a right-down ‘raughty gal,’ leading her alley to battle against the Roman ‘slops.’
1932, Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm:But compared with the heavy, muffling darkness of the night in which the countryside was sunk, the lights looked positively rorty
1972, Private Eye, numbers 263-288:Unsuitable for family motorists. Only Custom Car gives you the real dirt on the fastest, the loudest, the rortiest, ....
1996 August 3, “From ragtops to riches Compact SLK doesn't leave out...”, in Toronto Star:If it isn't ultimately as keen-edged and involving as some of its rortier forebears, the SLK makes a great deal more sense for the '90s.
2007 May 31, “Lotus 2-Eleven - Road Test First Drive”, in Autocar:Any speed any gear it doesn't matter. The 2Eleven's got an enormous powerband huge performance and the rortiest exhaust I've heard in an Elise-based car