Reechy

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈriːt͡ʃi/

Origin

From reech.

Adjective

adjective

1. smoky, dirty, squalid
• 1599, William Shakespeare, ,BORACHIO. Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty? sometime fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers in the reechy painting; sometime like god Bel's priests in the old church-window; sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
• 1602 : William Shakespeare, , act III scene 4Let the bloat King tempt you again to bedPinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouseAnd let him for a pair of reechy kisses,Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,Make you to ravel all this matter outThat I essentially am not in madnessBut mad in craft.

Anagrams

• cheery