yvlog

Advertisement

Advertisement

reechy

[ ree-chee ]

adjective

Archaic.
reechier, reechiest.
  1. smoky or sooty.
  2. squalid or filthy.


Discover More

yvlog History and Origins

Origin of reechy1

1425–75; late Middle English, equivalent to reech (dialectal variant of reek ) + -y 1
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

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

With almost prurient relish, Hamlet chides his mother not to let the "bloat king" with his "reechy kisses" tempt her again to bed.

Great men have been unfaithful to their marital vows, but it has been those of mediocre minds and india-rubber morals who have cowered at the feet of mistresses—who have thrown their world away for reechy kisses shared by others.

From

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

Alec rode my little riding cow Reechy.

From

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement