reechy

Definitions

Smoky, dirty, squalid.

Equivalents

Examples

“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?”

“Let⟳ the bloat King tempt you again to bed Pinch wanton on your cheek, call⟳ you his mouse And let⟳ him for a pair of reechy kisses, Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers, Make⟳ you to ravel all this matter⟳ out That I essentially am not in madness But mad in craft.”

“Lies to rest⟳ in difficult care For your pleasures to be there, dissolves in a bed of chair Reechy institutional man”

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