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rackety, a.|ˈrækɪtɪ|
Also -tty.
[f. racket n.3 + -y.]
1. Addicted to making a racket; noisy, gay, fond of excitement.
This and sense 2 are tending to merge.
1773J. Berridge Chr. World Unmasked (1812) 27 Some players are rude and racketty. 1857Kingsley Two Years Ago I. vii. 192 This strange metamorphosis in the rackety little Irishman. 1885Manch. Exam. 9 Apr. 5/3 The rackety winds of March and April. 1975I. Murdoch Word Child 257 It was raining, and a rackety wind was sweeping the rain in little wild gusts across the windows. 1976A. Powell Infants of Spring v. 80 In the middle age-group of most houses there inclined to occur a cluster of fairly rackety boys, from whom the house⁓tutor might expect trouble. 1977Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 12/1 Crosby did not much like Harvard, but he seems to have been a fairly conventional undergraduate there, even if wilful and rackety.
2. Characterized by noise, excitement, dissipation, or disturbance.
1827[see racket v.2 3]. 1840Hood Up the Rhine 61 Foreign travelling is very racketty work. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. x. ii. (1872) III. 221 He..studies and learns amazingly in such a rackety existence. 1927C. Connolly Let. 11 Feb. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 250 One misses the thrilling rackety journey to the wagon restaurant. 1961A. Ritner Seize Nettle 158 The big basket of clothes to be coaxed through the rackety old washer. 1974C. Milne Enchanted Places xix. 129 A room designed—as a nursery should be—for doing things in, messy things, racketty things, rough-and-tumble things. 1975J. Symons Three Pipe Problem xviii. 201 He unlocked the door, switched on the engine, and listened to its rackety coughing.
¶3. = rickety.
1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 55 An old rackety inn, that looked ready to fall to pieces. |