ride rantipole

English

Alternative forms

• ride a rantipole

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Verb

ride rantipole (third-person singular simple present rides rantipole, present participle riding rantipole, simple past rode rantipole, past participle ridden rantipole)

1. (intransitive, vulgar, archaic) To have sexual intercourse with the woman positioned on top of the man.

   Synonyms: cowgirl, ride St. George

   • 1772, Samuel Bentley, “Prize Ænigma”, in The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's Almanack, volume 69, page 31:

     Oft in the Streets I'm ſeen to ride / Exalted, as it were for Pride; / And ſome will have it that I ſtroll, / Like Boys, when riding Rantipole[.]

     Note: Part of riddle with the meaning spectacles (“eyeglasses”).

   • 2021, Emma Lombard, chapter 3, in Grace on the Horizon (The White Sails; 2):

     How 'bout I let ya climb aboard me, love? I'll even let ya ride rantipole," slurred the stranger, waggling his bushy eyebrows.

   • [2021, Lucasta Miller, Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph:

     As a verb, 'to ride rantipole' meant 'the woman uppermost in amorous congress', which adds an extra layer of humour to the poem, as Keats's Rantipole Betty is flat on her back, 'dead as a venus tipsy'.]

References

• “rantipole n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present