rawky

rawky

English

Etymology

rawk (“fog, mist”) +‎ -y

Adjective

rawky

1. (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!