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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[F.

rogneux

, from

rogne

scab, mange, itch.]

Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome.

[Written also

roinish

[Obs.]

“The roynish clown.”

Shak.

, a.

Mean; paltry; as the roynish clown. [Not in use.]

roynish ‎(comparative more roynish, superlative most roynish)

(obsolete) Mangy; scabby.
Mean; paltry; troublesome.
- 1980, Stephen Donaldson, The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One, Hachette UK (ISBN 9781473202542)
  Their voices had a roynish sound that grated on Covenant's nerves—he had too many horrid memories of urviles—but he suppressed his discomfort