Meaning of ree-raw | Babel Free

Definitions

untidy; chaotic; disordered

Ireland

Examples

“She was a complete bar to Harry's improvement; his room was no longer neat, as his English landlady had kept it: it was, to use an expressive Irish phrase, always "Ree-raw," and Mrs. O'Reardon herself was a source of perpetual amusement […]”

“The Captain John Kelly here named also owned Mount Pelia and Castle Kelly, in the county of Dublin, and afterwards had a fine ree-raw Irish place, called Larch Hill, […]”

“There was something cynical in his ree-raw independence. It was unlike what he had been used to, and its savagery suited with his bitter and unsociable mood of late.”

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