reechy

reech +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːt͡ʃi/
• Rhymes: -iːtʃi
• Homophone: reachy

reechy

1. Smoky, dirty, squalid.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     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?

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     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.

   • 1989, Tim Smith, On Land and in the Sea, Buds And Spawn:

     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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