reasty

English

Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːsti

Adjective

reasty (comparative more reasty, superlative most reasty)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) rusty and rancid; applied to salt meat

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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