reet
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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]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (erroneously taken for rect instead of reet by the dictionary's editors)
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