| 单词 |
reasty |
| 释义 |
reasty, a. Chiefly dial.|ˈriːstɪ|
Also 7, 9 reisty, 9 reesty, reeasty, raisty, etc.
[Later form of resty a.; cf. reesed a.]
1. Rancid. Cf. reasy 1.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 53 Through follie too beastlie much bacon is reastie. 1632Sherwood, Reasie (or reastie), ranci, relant. 1639Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xxvi. §329 Musty,..tainted, sappy, rotten, reisty things such as bacon and grease is wont to be. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 269/1 Much Bacon and long kept, groweth reasty. 1821A. Welby Visit N. Amer. 113 For six months the food..was only some reasty bacon and Indian corn. 1848A. B. Evans Leicestersh. Words s.v., ‘That ere oil's as raisty, as raisty.’ 1855–in many dial. glossaries. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister Street II. iv. ii. 859 A luxurious mournfulness was in the view, and he leaned out over the sill scenting the reasty London air. 1959Listener 10 Dec. 1035/2, I paid for all mistakes with drops of sweat Strained from the reasty gammon of my pain. 1964J. Hale Grudge Fight v. 76 What you'll do is shut your trap and get back to your reasty pit. 1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xvii. 166 In some homes..bacon with a strong nasty taste is not rancid but reasty. 1978Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. xxvii. 13 Please, Looard, send summat good to eyt; Not reeasty bacon or fatty meyt.
transf.1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. iii. 147 Martins Vnbrideled stile, and Pap-hatchets reastie eloquence.
†2. = reasy 2 (q.v.). |
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