a. Now dial. [f. KET1 + -Y1.] Having bad flesh; carrion-like; rotten, foul, nasty; worthless. Of soil: Soft, peaty.
1607. Markham, Caval., III. (1617), 25. If your horse be grose, fat, and a foule feeder, which is calld a kettie horse.
1674–91. Ray, N. C. Words, 40. A Ketty Cur, a nasty stinking Fellow.
1828. Craven Dial., Ketty, worthless.
1855. Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Ketty, putrid.
1872. in N. W. Linc. Gloss., s.v., By the river some more [land] Rotten and ketty and bad.
