| 释义 |
ketty, a. Now dial.|ˈkɛtɪ|
[f. ket1 + -y1.]
Having bad flesh; carrion-like; rotten, foul, nasty; worthless. Of soil: Soft, peaty.
1607Markham Caval. iii. (1617) 25 If your horse be grose, fat, and a foule feeder, which is calld a kettie horse. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words 40 A Ketty Cur, a nasty stinking Fellow. 1828Craven Dial., Ketty, worthless. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Ketty, putrid. 1872in N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., By the river some more [land] Rotten and ketty and bad. |