rammysh

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rammysh

  1. rank; foul.
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 887-889:
      [...] Her savour is so rammish and so hoot,
      That, though a man from hem a myle be,
      The savour wol infecte him, trusteth me;
      [...]
      Their odor is so like a goat and so intense,
      That though a man be a mile from them,
      The odor will infect him, trust me;