reet
English edit
Etymology edit
From eye dialectal spelling of right.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
reet (comparative mair reet, superlative maist reet)
Usage notes edit
Generally this spelling and pronunciation of right applies only in the adjective and adverb (see below) senses of the word and of the noun sense. Sometimes heard elsewhere in the North of England, especially historically, the word is now mainly Geordie.
Adverb edit
reet (not comparable)
- (Geordie, Lancashire, Yorkshire) right
- 2011, “Awterations” (track 14), in Bread and Fishes[1], performed by Houghton Weavers:
- Now I've only bin once wi a scarf round mi neck, And I moan't go agin, no not me will I eck. Now it doesn't seem reet if mi memory jogs, Goin down for a pint in thi bowtie and clogs.
See also edit
- reet pleat (probably etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch rete. Equivalent to a deverbal from rijten (“to rip (up)”).
Noun edit
reet f (plural reten, diminutive reetje n) (sometimes m)
- A ripped-up spot, tear; cleft, crack, crevice
- De kat krabde reten in het behang.
- The cat tore up the wallpaper to shreds.
- (vulgar) The butt crack, arse, anus
- (by extension, vulgar) The butt, behind
- (by extension, vulgar) (in geen reet nothing at all) nothing
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
reet
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Noun edit
reet
- nominative plural of reki
Anagrams edit
Old Irish edit
Noun edit
reet (gender unknown)
- (hapax) impetigo
- 9th or 10th century, Glosses on Canons in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Parker 279, p. 134. Published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. II, p. 38, line 17:
- reet glosses Latin inpitiginem
- 9th or 10th century, Glosses on Canons in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Parker 279, p. 134. Published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. II, p. 38, line 17:
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (erroneously taken for rect instead of reet by the dictionary's editors)