(forgive me for yet another foray into "worthless words"..)

the worthless word for the day is: roynish

[fr. ME roin, scurf, scab + ish;
fr. (assumed) Vulgar Latin ronea(?)]

archaic
mangy, scabby; (thus) coarse, mean, base

My Lord, the roynish Clown, at whom so oft
Your Grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.
- Shakespeare, As You Like It

OED gives origin unknown for roin, while W3 assumes royne is from VL ronea (which it doesn't deign to gloss, going on to say "influenced by rodere, to gnaw").

so what's the meaning of ronea then?

-joe (not so obvious) f.