English Explanatory Dictionary

racy of the soil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Deeply connected to a place, especially Ireland; indigenous.
  2. Deeply connected to the land; rural or rustic; earthy.

Word forms

racy of the soil more racy of the soil most racy of the soil racy of one's soil

Etymology

See racy senses 2 and 3. Popularised in Ireland in the slogan of The Nation (1842–1900) — "To create and foster public opinion in Ireland, and to make it racy of the soil" — adapted from a remark by Stephen Woulfe on the Irish Municipal Reform Bill. Similar earlier phrases were used by William Drennan in Letters of Orellana in 1785, and by Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1831.

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