To disturb, to annoy, to irritate.
a. 1734. [This] was what roiled him extremely.—North’s ‘Lives.’ (N.E.D.)
1825. Be the niggers railly up, or no? rather ryled, I guess, in Carrylynee [Carolina]?—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 104.
1825. Bein’ afeerd he might ryle my blood, I begins for to whistle a toone or two…. And so, bein’ a little miffed, or so, from the fust, I gets ryled, by-an-by, like any thing.—Id., i. 158–9.
1833. You seem to be a leetle ryled yourself…. Never was half half so mad afore,—ryled all over, inside and out. Ryled? To be sure!—ryled,—ructious—there ye go agin!—Id., ‘The Down-Easters,’ i. 13–4.
1848.
| It ’s ’coz they ’re so happy, thet, wen crazy sarpints | |
| Stick their nose in our bizness, we git so darned riled. | |
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ No. 5. |
1856. I found the President alone, walking back and forth across the room, and looking kind of riled and very resolute.—Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 452 (1860).
1857. It only raises the devil in me, and riles me all up.—J. G. Holland, ‘The Bay-Path,’ p. 32.
1862. See POLLYWOG.
1867.
| Nothin’ riles me (I pledge my fastin’ word) | |
| Like cookin’ out the natur’ of a bird. | |
Lowell, ‘Fitz-Adam’s Story,’ Atlantic Monthly, Jan. |
1869. See CAP-SHEAF.
1872. Some of the boys began to get terribly riled up, and wanted to stop and hunt the Indians.—‘Life of Bill Hickman,’ p. 72.
