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单词 reasty
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reastyadj.

Brit. /ˈriːsti/, U.S. /ˈristi/, Welsh English /ˈriːsːtiː/
Forms: 1500s–1600s reastie, 1500s–1600s 1800s– reasty, 1600s reisty, 1700s reastye, 1900s– rasty (Welsh English); English regional 1700s– raisty (northern and midlands), 1700s– reesty, 1800s reizdy (Yorkshire), 1800s– raesty (Yorkshire), 1800s– rasty (southern and midlands), 1800s– reeasty (northern and midlands), 1800s– reisty.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: resty adj.1
Etymology: Apparently a variant of resty adj.1 Compare later reasy adj.1 Compare also earlier reesed adj. and later reese v.2
Chiefly English regional and Welsh English in later use.
Of bacon, oil, etc.: rancid. Cf. reasy adj.1, rusty adj.2
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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
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 22 Through folly too beastly, much baken is reasty [1577 resty; 1580 reastie].
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 147 Martins Vnbrideled stile, and Pap-hatchets reastie eloquence.
1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xxvi. §329 Musty,..tainted, sappy, rotten, reisty things such as bacon and grease is wont to be.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 269/1 Much Bacon and long kept, groweth reasty.
1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 355 [Gloucestershire] Raisty pro Rusty—as Raisty Bacon—Rancidum Lardum.
1821 A. Welby Visit N. Amer. 113 For six months the food..was only some reasty bacon and Indian corn.
1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words (at cited word) ‘That ere oil's as raisty, as raisty.’
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. ii. 859 A luxurious mournfulness was in the view, and he leaned out over the sill scenting the reasty London air.
1959 Listener 10 Dec. 1035/2 I paid for all mistakes with drops of sweat Strained from the reasty gammon of my pain.
1964 J. Hale Grudge Fight v. 76 What you'll do is shut your trap and get back to your reasty pit.
1978 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. xxvii. 13 Please, Looard, send summat good to eyt; Not reeasty bacon or fatty meyt.
1992 J. Crace Arcadia iii. ii. 195 Or lifting melons to his nose and knowing, from the smell, the reasty from the ripe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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