[Dixonary] REEZED provenance

[Dodi Schultz]

I'm not familiar with the dictionary Tony cited, Paul, and neither Google
nor allwords.com turns up "reezed." But the word DID appear, with the
definition given by Tony, in the 1913 edition of Merriam-Webster, which is
online at http://machaut.uchicago.edu/

It did NOT appear in prior and subsequent M-W editions, AFAIK; at least
it's not in either the 1864 or the 1934, of which I have copies in my own
library.

--Dodi

[JohnnyB]

Dodi

>
> It did NOT appear in prior and subsequent M-W editions, AFAIK; at least it's not in either the 1864 or the 1934, of which I have
copies in my own library.
>


For what it is worth, reezed didn't appear in the Noah Webster 1828 either - but reasty and reastiness did appear - with the
approriate meaning

JohnnyB

[Dodi Schultz]

DS> It did NOT appear in prior and subsequent M-W editions, AFAIK; at least
it's not in either the 1864 or the 1934, of which I have copies in my own
library.

JB> For what it is worth, reezed didn't appear in the Noah Webster 1828
either - but reasty and reastiness did appear - with the approriate meaning

REASTY is in both the 1864 and 1934. In the former, it's "covered with a
kind of rust and having a rancid taste; applied to dried meat." In 1934
it's just "rancid." Apparently it was a variant of "rusty." Both editions
indicate that its use was strictly local or "dialect."

Interesting that REEZED suddenly popped up in the 1913, while the word it
presumably replaced persisted in a later edition.

--Dodi