ree-raw

English

Adjective

ree-raw

1. (Ireland) untidy; chaotic; disordered
   • 1836, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Harry O'Reardon, Or, Illustrations of Irish Pride, page 113:

     She was a complete bar to Harry's improvement; his room was no longer neat, as his English landlady had kept it: it was, to use an expressive Irish phrase, always "Ree-raw," and Mrs. O'Reardon herself was a source of perpetual amusement […]

   • 1857, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:

     The Captain John Kelly here named also owned Mount Pelia and Castle Kelly, in the county of Dublin, and afterwards had a fine ree-raw Irish place, called Larch Hill, […]

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     There was something cynical in his ree-raw independence. It was unlike what he had been used to, and its savagery suited with his bitter and unsociable mood of late.

Anagrams

• rewear, wearer