royal adj.
(orig. US) a general intensifier, often used before so-called taboo terms, e.g. a royal screwing, a royal shafting.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter in Travels (1810) I 31 July 47: We made [...] what our captain called a ‘royal stew.’. | |
| Charcoal Sketches (1865) 74: A man can’t rise after a royal hyst, without letting on he feels flat. | |
| Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 232: We had a royal meal. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Golden Butterfly III 107: He saw that her face was white, and that she was in a royal rage. | |
| Life on the Mississippi (1914) 162: Racing was royal fun. | |
| ‘The Solid Muldoon’ in Soldiers Three (1907) 41: There had been a royal dog-fight in the ravine at the back of the rifle-butts. | |
| Mirror of Life 11 Aug. 14/2: Jack, with a dozen vagabond mates about him, was Indulging in a royal booze. | |
| Memoirs of Madge Buford 121: My slit was feated [sic] with a royal prick giving it a royal fuck. | |
| Gem 4 Nov. 5: A regular, ripping, royal jape! | |
| From Coast to Coast with Jack London 21: Let’s camp on the curb of the street and have a royal feast, pal! | |
| Plastic Age 242: Hugh blushed and shuffled his feet. He knew that he had laid himself open to a ‘royal razzing.’. | |
| Haunch Paunch and Jowl 210: It became a battle royal. | |
| Tramp-Royal on the Toby 7: The Jocks predominate and lead the cross-talk: tramps-royal all! | |
| ‘The Lonely Widow’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 55: Jack sure gave my friend Betty a royal fuck. | |
| Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 8: You get what is comin’ to you an’ that is usually a right royal raspberry. | |
| Sexus (1969) 183: A royal bit of fucking, thought I to myself. | |
| Catcher in the Rye (1958) 32: He gave out a big yawn while he said that. Which is something that gives me a royal pain in the ass. | |
| letter 10 May in Proud Highway (1997) 336: The guy had made a royal ass of himself. | |
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Housing Lark 48: If it wasn’t for this dilapidated sleeper, Gallows would of catch his royal arse, because he didn’t have no work. | |
| (con. 1960s) Wanderers 33: His sister was a royal skank who fucked for a dime. | |
| Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 67: By now I assume you can tell this guy Stack is a royal jerkola. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 173: Baroda didn’t exactly have a stroke or even a small fit but he did give Edgar the royal flick. | |
| Florida Roadkill 32: We’ve got bugs in Florida that can kick your royal butt. | |
| Hooky Gear 238: Them havin a royal laugh, a laugh a day, a minute. | |
| Rubdown [ebook] A terrific girl who was getting the right royal brush-off. | |
| ‘The Fights’ in Knockemstiff 194: [A]n old-time Big Book thumper who could sometimes be a royal pain in the ass. | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 114: Nancy had been a royal bitch when he dropped off the money. | |
 | 567 Cape Talk on Cape Radio 7 Mar. [radio] They’re a right royal bunch of idiots. | |
| Opal Country 260: ‘Your presence here is a right royal pain in the arse’. |
In compounds
(Irish) a bag of cans of beer left to cool in a canal.
| in Twitter 23 Apr. 🌐 In Dublin, a ‘Royal baby’ is a bag of cans that’s been left in the canal to cool. |
(N.Z. gay) a public lavatory cubicle which offers a view of the urinals.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 65: If he was in a cubicle with viewing access to the urinal he was in the royal circle. |
(US) harsh or very bad treatment.
| Governor 111: We’ll all give Frank a royal fucking! | |
| Don’t Mind Dying 162: We takin’ a royal fucking on this bullshit agreement! | |
| Fobidden Amer. Eng. 155: The gang gave the mugger a royal fucking he’ll never forget. | |
| TalentZoo.com 🌐 Those poor Enron employees who bought the line of bullshit Enron management fed them and made Enron 100% of their retirement portfolio received a royal fucking. |
(Aus.) an outsize iron pot used in cookery.
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 10 Sept. 2/3: They slang what they called a ‘royal George’ — or huge iron pot, over a fire, in which they made tea for all hands, but. it was fall of ‘posts and rails,’ or tea sticks, and altogether inferior to quart pot tea. |
see under screw n.1
an act of extreme harshness or unfairness, as meted out on oneself or to another person.
| (con. 1950s) Esquire Aug. 71: The Royal Screw, hence The Royal Shaft, hence The King’s Elevator . | |
| (con. 1950s) ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 100: The Royal Screw, hence The Royal Shaft, hence The King’s Elevator. | |
| Daily Beacon (Univ. Tenn.) 31 July 4: The King’s Elevator...Roth got the royal shaft [HDAS]. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
1. the police force.
| (ref. to mid-19C) Life and Times of James Catnach 203: The term ‘bobby’ — after Robert Peel, immediately became the cant word, together with [...] the ‘Royal Blues; or, the Cook’s Own,’ and other opprobrious terms. |
2. (drugs) LSD.
| Drug Crisis in Spears (1986). | |
| et al. Recreational Drugs. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 18: Royal blues — LSD. |
see under bob n.3
(S.Afr. gay) an underage boy.
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Gayle. |
(Aus.) dismissal from one’s job.
| DSUE (8th edn) 993/1: since ca. 1925. |
gin.
| Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. | |
| Western Dly Press 17 Oct. 4/3: What did forefathers understand by the name Royal Poverty — Gin. | |
| True Drunkard’s Delight 229: Perhaps, gin is your tipple; then you are for [...] royal poverty. |
see under scamp n.