(UK, dialect) Rancid, "rusty" (applied to salt meat).
So I could pluck a crow with Poet Martial for calling it puire halec, the scauld rotten herring; be he meant that of the fat, reasty Scottish herrings, which will endure no salt, and in one month (bestow what cost on them you will) wax r…
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(by extension, UK, dialect) Rank and smelly.
Moist and muggy weather will turn it reasty sooner than anything.
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(UK, dialect) Cranky and unmanageable.
The on'y flesh meaat we 'ad fur the six on us i' the wik wer' 2 lbs. of what we termed Rang-tank baacon— a reasty article it wer' too — but to me then, even the salt and the reasty crust on it were delicious.
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