ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Reasty

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Reasty is an adjective meaning (UK, dialect) Rancid, "rusty" (applied to salt meat).

Meaning

(UK, dialect) Rancid, "rusty" (applied to salt meat).

More Meanings

  1. (by extension, UK, dialect) Rank and smelly.
  2. (UK, dialect) Cranky and unmanageable.

Example Sentences

Much bacon is reasty
Moist and muggy weather will turn it reasty sooner than anything.
There's a chap who used to come here used to work at our place we used to call him reasty Roy.
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rusty, reezed, rancid, rafty, rustful, sappy.

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