rawky
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rawk (“fog, mist”) + -y.
Adjective
[edit]rawky
- (dialectal, rare) Foggy, misty (and dreary).
- 1873, John Clare, John Law Cherry, Life and Remains of John Clare: The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet, page 227:
- And here are nameless flowers, / Culled in cold and rawky hours / For my Mary's happy home. / They grew in murky blea, / Rush fields and naked lea, / But suns will shine and pleasing / Spring will come.
- 2019, William Grace, Omniverse: Book II of the Omniverse Chronicles, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 86:
- 'Tis bloody rawky weather! Farewell ta Indian summer! 'Tis as bad as Ireland! But just right fer th' hard task I've set for me self an' th' lad this day!