Reasty

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Rancid, "rusty" (applied to salt meat). UK, dialectal

    "Much bacon is reasty"

  2. 2
    Rank and smelly. UK, broadly, dialectal

    "His nose led him to the top of the basement stairs and there almost dissuaded him. Jessica might have been tanning, the atmosphere was so remarkable. He went quietly down into the reasty dark."

  3. 3
    Cranky and unmanageable. UK, dialectal

    "The horse turned reasty and would not start for some time."

Synonyms

All synonyms
badbad-smellingfecalfetidfoulfrowsty

Example

More examples

"So I could pluck a crow with Poet Martial for calling it puire halec, the scauld rotten herring; be he meant that of the fat, reasty Scottish herrings, which will endure no salt, and in one month (bestow what cost on them you will) wax rammish if they be kept."

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of resty.

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