Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence. · To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts. · To remove violently or wrongly. · To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA tear (in paper, etc.). · A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves. · A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids. · A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
From Middle English rippen, from earlier ryppen (“to pluck”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rupjaną and/or *ruppōną, intensive of *raupijaną, causative of Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break”). Possible doublet of rub. Cognate with West Frisian rippe, ripje, roppe, ropje (“to rip”), Dutch dialectal rippen, Low German ruppen, German Low German röpen, German rupfen, also Old English rīpan, rīepan (“to plunder”) (whence English reap), West Frisian rippe (“to rip, tear”), German raufen (“to rip”); perhaps also, less likely, Albanian rrabe (“maquis”) and Latin rubus (“bramble”). More at reave, rob, and rub.
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