reechy

[ ree-chee ]

adjective

, Archaic.

, reech·i·er, reech·i·est.

1. smoky or sooty.
2. squalid or filthy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of reechy¹

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

Example Sentences

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 Los Angeles Times

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Project Gutenberg

Your prattling nurse     Into a rapture lets her baby cry     While she chats him; the kitchen malkin pins     Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,     Clamb'ring the walls to eye him; stalls, bulks, windows,     Are smother'd up, leads fill'd and ridges hors'd     With variable complexions, all agreeing     In earnestness to see him.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg