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ree-raw en · ADJ

Meanings

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