Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Musty: stale.
- Damp; muggy.
- High-tempered; violent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Damp; musty.
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- adjective UK, dialect
damp ;musty - adjective rare, obsolete
bad-mannered
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lodging anyhow: which is wretchedly 'rafty' and cold; lets the Rain in when it Rains: and the Dust of the Shore when it drives: as both have been doing by turns all Yesterday and To day.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Edward FitzGerald 1846
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Beat into a Paste; the fattest Old _Cheese_, the strongest _Rennet_ can be got, fine _Wheat-flower_ and _Annis-seed_ Water: If for a _Chub_ you make the Paste, put a little rafty _Bacon_.
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He says that the Suffolk phrase 'rafty weather' (meaning mist or fog) originates from that time, as being weather suitable for the French to make a surprise attack by rafts or flat-boats.
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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The coarse, half-cooked cabbage, the small bit of fat and rafty bacon, the dry bread and pint of weak tea, makes no very hearty supper after such a day as this.
The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867
qms commented on the word rafty
Though most people think he is daft he
Makes some think, “not crazy but crafty.”
I doubt it’s a feint
‘Cause clever he ain’t.
The man is authentically rafty.
November 20, 2017