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Irish
Etymology
From rop (“thrust, stab”, verb) + -aire (agent noun suffix).
Noun
ropaire m (genitive singular ropaire, nominative plural ropairí)
- thruster, stabber; violent person
- cut-purse, robber; scoundrel
- (historical) rapparee
- (historical) rap (any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century)
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ropaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ropaire”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “ropaire”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025