different between reet vs geet

English

Etymology

From eye dialectal spelling of right.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Geordie) enPR: r?t, IPA^(key): /?i?t/

Adjective

reet (comparative mair reet, superlative maist reet)

1. (Tyneside) right

Usage notes

Generally this spelling and pronunciation of right applies only in the adjective and adverb (see below) senses of the word and of the noun sense.

Adverb

reet (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) right

Anagrams

• TREE, Tree, rete, teer, tree

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?t/
• Hyphenation: reet
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch rete. Equivalent to a deverbal from rijten (“to rip (up)”).

Noun

reet f (plural reten, diminutive reetje n) (sometimes m)

1. A ripped-up spot, tear; cleft, crack, crevice

   De kat krabde reten in het behang.

   The cat tore up the wallpaper to shreds.

2. (vulgar) The butt crack, arse, anus
3. (by extension, vulgar) The butt, behind
4. (by extension, vulgar) (in geen reet nothing at all) nothing

Synonyms

• (crack): kier, spleet
• (arse-hole): aars, gat, hol

Derived terms

• geen reet (“nothing, not in the least”)
• reetveter
• rete-

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

reet

1. singular past indicative of rijten

Anagrams

• eert, eter, teer, tere, tree

Finnish

Noun

reet

1. Nominative plural form of reki.

Anagrams

• tere

Old Irish

Noun

reet (gender unknown)

1. (hapax) impetigo
   • 9th or 10th century, Glosses on Canons in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Parker 279, p. 134. Published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. II, p. 38, line 17:

     reet glosses Latin inpitiginem

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (erroneously taken for rect instead of reet by the dictionary's editors)

English

Adjective

geet (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) great

Adverb

geet (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) very

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

Fiji Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from English gate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Noun

geet

1. paddock

References

• Fiji Hindi Dictionary

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?t/, [??e??t?]
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Syllabification: geet

Noun

geet

1. Nominative plural form of gee.

Luxembourgish

Verb

geet

1. third-person singular present indicative of goen

Middle English

Noun

geet

1. Alternative form of get (“jet”)