reet
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: 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.
Adverb[edit]
reet (not comparable)
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.
- De kat krabde reten in het behang.
- (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 form 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)
Categories:
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/iːt
- Rhymes:English/iːt/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- Geordie English
- English adverbs
- English uncomparable adverbs
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːt
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːt/1 syllable
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch feminine nouns
- Dutch vulgarities
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- nl:Buttocks
- Finnish non-lemma forms
- Finnish noun forms
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish hapax legomena