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In some senses, reasty is marked as UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
fat, sooner
VERB + REASTY
turn
REASTY + NOUN
anything, herrings, scottish
PREP.
than
adj
Rancid, "rusty" (applied to salt meat).
Much bacon is reasty
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.
Rank and smelly.
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.
Now, I picture the Romanesque beauty of Vinohrady, the reasty—yes, reasty—squalor of Žižkov, with its endless graffiti and bohemian charm, and Jiřího z Poděbrad, with its sea of pink and yellow and blue apartment blocks of various mild hues: a storybook fantasy, an architect's dream.
Cranky and unmanageable.
The horse turned reasty and would not start for some time.
You'l lie downe shortly. Get you in, and worke! What, are you growne so reasty you want heates?
Much bacon is reasty
WiktionarySo 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 (bes
WiktionaryMoist and muggy weather will turn it reasty sooner than anything.
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In some senses, reasty is marked as UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.