Meaning

2 senses

  1. (dialectal)Wild; fierce; outrageous; overexcited; frenzied; delirious; crazy.

  2. (dialectal)Befuddled with liquor; half-drunk; tipsy.

Examples

15 sentences

  1. I need to buy a new clarinet reed.

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  2. Tom broke Mary's clarinet reed.

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  3. The reed bends in the wind.

    ruКамыш гнётся на ветру. — Balamax

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  4. He is as slender as a reed.

    ruОн строен как камыш. — AqQoyriq_1

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  5. Teach me how to play a reed pipe.

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Origin

From Middle English rei, reh, reoh, from Old English hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, d

From Middle English rei, reh, reoh, from Old English hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, stormy, tempestuous”), from Proto-Germanic *hreuhaz (“bad, wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).

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Forms

reer/more ree, reest/most ree
Comparativereer / more ree Lesson
Superlativereest / most ree Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
merryA1squiffy
frenzied:franticfreneticoff the chain
half-drunk:buzzed

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
reductionB1redundancyC2redundantB2redwoodreedB2reefB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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