adj. (provincial).—See quot. 1847.
1847. HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v. RIDICULOUS … Something very indecent and improper is understood; as, any violent attack upon a woman’s chastity is called “very RIDICULOUS behaviour:” a very disorderly, and ill-conducted house, is also called a “RIDICULOUS one.”
1889. Notes and Queries, 7 S., ix. 453. A man once informed me that the death by drowning of a relative was most RIDICULOUS.
