ree-raw

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Adjective

ree-raw

  1. (Ireland) untidy; chaotic; disordered
    • 1836, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Harry O'Reardon, Or, Illustrations of Irish Pride, page 113:
      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 […]
    • 1857, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:
      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, […]
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
      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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