different between squalid vs reechy

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin squalidus, from squalere (“to be rough or dirty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skw?l?d/

Adjective

squalid (comparative squalider, superlative squalidest)

1. Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
2. Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.

   A squalid attempt to buy votes.

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Etymology 2

Noun

squalid (plural squalids)

1. (zoology) Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks.
   • 2008, David A. Ebert, James A. Sulikowski, Biology of Skates (page 126)

     Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods […]

English

Etymology

reech +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?t??i/

Adjective

reechy

1. Smoky, dirty, squalid.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 3

     BORACHIO. Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty? sometime fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers in the reechy painting; sometime like god Bel's priests in the old church-window; sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?

   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III scene 4

     Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed

     Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse

     And let him for a pair of reechy kisses,

     Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,

     Make you to ravel all this matter out

     That I essentially am not in madness

     But mad in craft.

   • 1989 : Tim Smith, On Land and in the Sea, Buds And Spawn

     Lies to rest in difficult care

     For your pleasures to be there, dissolves in a bed of chair

     Reechy institutional man

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