reasty

English

Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -iːsti

Adjective

reasty (comparative more reasty, superlative most reasty)

(obsolete, UK, dialect) rusty and rancid; applied to salt meat
- 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC:
  Much bacon is reasty

Related terms

reastiness

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reasty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

stayre, Treysa, estray, starey, satyre, Stayer, tyrase, e-trays, yarest, stayer