reechy
Americanadjective
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smoky or sooty.
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squalid or filthy.
Etymology
Origin of reechy
1425–75; late Middle English, equivalent to reech (dialectal variant of reek ) + -y 1
Example Sentences
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The movie begins with a long fantasy sequence in which she imagines her husband driving her to the country in a horse and carriage, then watching as she is stripped, lashed and submitted to the reechy kisses of an unshaven and brutish coachman.
From Los Angeles Times
All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him: Your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry, While she chats him: the kitchin malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck.
From Project Gutenberg
Alec rode my little riding cow Reechy.
From Project Gutenberg
I took Tommy with me, on Reechy, and we went over to the spot, while the party continued marching on; on arriving we found a very pretty piece of scenery.
From Project Gutenberg
We gave little Reechy, or as I usually called her Screechy, all the water we could get out of the well, with one of Tommy's boots; she drank it out of his hat, and they started away.
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