rawky en · ADJ
Etymology
From rawk (“fog, mist”) + -y.
Meanings
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(dialectal, rare) Foggy, misty (and dreary).
And here are nameless flowers, / Culled in cold and rawky hours / For my Mary's happy home. / They grew in murky blea, / Rush fields and naked lea, / But suns will shine and pleasing / Spring will come.
1873, John Clare, John Law Cherry, Life and Remains of John Clare: The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, page 227:'Tis bloody rawky weather! Farewell ta Indian summer! 'Tis as bad as Ireland! But just right fer th' hard task I've set for me self an' th' lad this day!
2019, William Grace, Omniverse: Book II of the Omniverse Chronicles, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 86: