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Reasty

adj

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."

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of resty.

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