different between reft vs reet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Verb

reft

1. simple past tense and past participle of reave

Noun

reft (plural refts)

1. A chink; a rift.
   • 1870, Dr. Bence Jones, The Life and Letters of Faraday, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., Vol. II, Chapter II, p. 146, [1]

     At one time the summit was beautifully bathed in golden light, whilst the middle part was quite blue, and the snow of its peculiar blue-green colour in the refts. Some of the glaciers are very distinct to us, and with the telescope I can see the refts and corrugations of the different parts, and the edges from which avalanches have fallen […]

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VII, [2]

     Now and again through a reft in the smoke a gleam of sunshine could be seen striking the rocks on the great peak to the west, but it had little or no effect in the gorge.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of The Romaunt of the Rose to this entry?)

Anagrams

• FRET, TERF, fret, terf, tref

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)