subs. (colloquial).—Repentance: as RUE-QUARREL, verb. = to repent and withdraw; RUE-BARGAIN = smart-money.
1817. SCOTT, Rob Roy, xxvii. He said it would cost him a guinea of RUE-BARGAIN to the man who had bought his pony before he could get it back again.
c. 1852. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), ed. Traits of American Humour, I. 226. I’m for no RUES and after-claps.
