RICKETY
ADJECTIVES
► ADDLE tumbledown, loose, rickety, shaky → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CLICK-MA-DOODLE badly done; rickety → 19C Eng. dial.
► COCKLETY rickety; tottering; unsteady; applied to what is likely to tumble or fall off → 1883 Eng. dial, (Bk.)
► COGGLED UP rickety; wobbly → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► COGGLETY shaky, unsteady, unstable, rickety → 19C Eng. dial.
► DICKY of things, conditions, etc.: uncertain, doubtful, critical, hazardous; rickety, shaky, tottering → 1851
► EMMIS insecurely placed, unsteady, rickety → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► LAVADATED rickety, dilapidated → 1927 Amer. dial.
► PARALYTIC shaky, rickety → 1824 humorous usage, obs.
► RAMSHACKERING rickety, dilapidated → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► RAMSHACKLE loose and shaky as if ready to fall to pieces; rickety, tumbledown, dilapidated, in disorder; orig. said chiefly of carriages and houses → 1830
► RAMSHACKLED dilapidated, run-down, in a state of disrepair, rickety, tumbledown → 1675
► RAMSHACKLEY ► RAMSHACKLY rickety → 1857
► RAMSHACKLING rickety, tumbledown, dilapidated → 1868
► RANSHACKLED rickety, dilapidated → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RATTLE-GUT rickety, shaky, rattling → 1877 Eng. dial.
► RICKET unsteady, rickety → 1904 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► RICKETED rickety, shaky, unsteady → 1896 Eng. dial.
► RICKLETY rickety, unstable, dilapidated, unsteady → 1969 Amer. dial.
► RICKLEY ► RICKLY loose, unstable, rickety, dilapidated → 1865 Sc.
► RIMRACKED ruined, worn out, rickety → 1862 Amer. dial.
► ROTTENDY rotten, rickety → 1945 Amer. dial.
► SHACKELTY ► SHACKLEDY ► SHACKLETY dilapidated, run-down, ramshackle, rickety, shaky → 1905 Amer. dial.
► SHACKELY shaky, rickety → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SHACKLEY ► SHACKLY ramshackle, rickety, run-down, tottering → 1843 Amer. dial.
► SHACKLING ramshackle, rickety, run-down → c1784 Amer. dial.
► SHAMBLY ramshackle, rickety → M20 colloq.
► SHATTERY of furniture, etc., loose, rickety → E19 Eng. dial.
► SHICKERY shabby; rickety; shaky → 1833 sl.
► SQUEEGEE distorted, damaged, rickety → 1959 Amer. dial.
► TITTUPING unsteady, rickety → 1824
► TITTUPY apt to tip up; unsteady, shaky, rickety → 1798 colloq.
► WAPPERGEE rickety → 1959 Amer. dial. rare
► WEE-WAW askew; crooked; more on one side than the other; rickety, shaky, loose, unsteady, wobbling → 1746 Eng. & Amer. dial.
NOUNS
► BONE-SETTER a horse hard in the riding; a rickety conveyance or vehicle → M18 sl.
► BRAIGGLE an old and dangerously rickety article → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CLICK-MA-DOODLE a rickety article; a badly finished piece of work → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAMSHACKLE something rickety or tumbledown → 1865
VERBS
► WEEWAW to set askew; to proceed unsteadily; to be shaky, wobbly or rickety → 1914 Amer. dial.
► WEE-WOW to be shaky, rickety, or wobbly → 1927 Amer. dial.
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