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Definition of Reasty
1. a. Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat.
Definition of Reasty
1. Adjective. (obsolete UK dialect) rusty and rancid; applied to salt meat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reasty
1. rancid [adj REASTIER, REASTIEST] - See also: rancid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reasty
| reast reasted reastier reastiest reasting reasts reasty (current term) reata reatas reate | reates reattach reattached reattaches reattaching reattachment reattachments reattachs reattack reattacked | reattacking |
Literary usage of Reasty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"Cr. Gl. under reasty. Beist, vn To be restive, to display stubbornness or obstinacy.
Fr. restif, stubborn, drawing backward, that will not go forward. ..."
2. The Ohio Educational Monthly: A Journal of School and Home Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1872)
"N. [Northern] Vulgarly pronounced in the South rusty, as rusty bacon." The word
reasty is used by Skelton,— " And then came ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"86 (in Hal. Dict.). ' Lay flitches a salting. Through folly too beastly Much
bacon is reasty.' Tusser, Fire Hundred Points of Good ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... by resty flees (resty flesh), and resty or restive (from Fr. rester) is
pronounced reasty in the N. of E. 'A ..."
5. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"86 (in Hal. £«*.). •Lay flitches a salting. Through folly too beastly Much bacon
is reasty.' Tusser, Fir« Hundred Pomi* of Good ..."
6. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"reasty, when bacon is yellow and tastes rank. York. Gloss. From all which it
appears, that neither the orthography nor the meaning of the word was ..."
7. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"reasty, when bacon is yellow and tastes rank. York. Gloss. From all which it
appears, that neither the orthography nor the meaning of the word was ..."
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