rashy

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹæʃi/
  • Rhymes: -æʃi

Etymology 1

From rash +‎ -y.

Adjective

rashy (comparative more rashy, superlative most rashy)

  1. Exhibiting a rash.
    • 2008 June 29, Virginia Heffernan, “The Oracle Collective”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      “What is this dry, rashy patch on my neck?”
  2. Mixed or layered with impurities.
    • 1983 December 6, "Robert C. Nelson", "Feeder/crusher machine"‎[2], US Patent 4418872:
      “Other coals are rashy, being interspersed or interbedded with shales and clays, causing them to come off the face in slabs and blocks....”
    • 1743, William Ellis, The Modern Husbandman:
      rashy gravel

Etymology 2

Noun

rashy (plural rashies)

  1. Alternative form of rashie (“rash guard”)
    • 2025 July 10, Rafqa Touma, “‘One in a million’: teen surfer found on remote island 14km off Australian coast”, in The Guardian‎[3]:
      "As far as we can tell, Darcy took a cream Malibu surfboard with him to One Tree at Wooli and went for a surf in very small swell some time around 4pm. We think he was wearing a dark rashy."

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