单词 | rafty |
释义 | raftyadj. Now English regional (chiefly East Anglian). 1. Of a place or time, or of the weather: damp and cold, bleak. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > fusty or musty fusty1398 musty1492 foisty1519 foistied1572 fusted1598 foughty1600 frowish1608 rafty1655 funkya1680 foisted1688 foist1691 frowsty1865 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective] moista1382 moistfula1398 undriedc1440 wak1513 mocha1522 humorous1526 humidc1550 dabby1581 fat1598 unparched1599 moistish1610 dampisha1642 weakya1642 rafty1655 dampya1691 damp1706 mochy1794 danky1820 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [adjective] > cold and damp raw1546 rawish1577 rawky1601 rafty1655 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 285 As things kept in a rafty muggish room, subject them to mould. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 126 In coldish raughty weather. 1688 H. Wharton tr. G. Dellon Hist. Inquisition Goa viii. 14 This Prison is the most rafty, the most dark, and the most horrible of all which I ever saw. 1825 H. J. Finn Montgomery iii. iii. 48 Old Larrynay's got her shot up in a rafty room of a ruinated convent. 1893 Essex Rev. 2 126 A rafty morning is still well understood in North Essex as meaning a raw morning. 1917 C. Morley Friend of FitzGerald in Ess. (1928) 197 He says that the Suffolk phrase ‘rafty weather’ (meaning mist or fog) originates from that time, as being weather suitable for the French to make a surprise attack by rafts. 1962 A. Jobson Window in Suffolk iv. 72 Ben did not always like work, neither did he feel equal to it when perhaps the weather was a bit rafty. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 238/2 Th'owd barn's that rafty. 2. Musty, sour-smelling; (of food, esp. bacon) stale, rancid. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > rank or rancid restya1325 rest1381 rammishc1395 areast1440 reested?c1475 reesed1486 musty1492 rusty?1521 turned1548 reasty1573 froughy1579 flatten1594 reasy1598 rammy1607 rancid1627 loud1641 ranked1648 virous1661 ranciduous1688 raftya1722 virose1756 reeky1854 loud-flavoured1866 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 347 Shred rafty bacon into it [sc. milk]. 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 338 Rafty biacon. a1887 R. Jefferies Toilers of Field (1892) 95 The small bit of fat and rafty bacon. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia A cask emptied of its contents, is apt to become rafty, if there be not sufficient access of air; and provisions, if the larder be not well ventilated. 1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 68 That ham got a kind of rafty smell wi' et. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 238/2 Yon bit o' cheese is that rafty it'll walk out be itsen in a minnit! DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > cold and damp rawness1577 rawishness1628 raftiness1674 raw1864 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 126 Feeding their earth and froath, with cold and raughtiness. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Raftiness, fustiness; staleness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1655 |
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