单词 | rickly |
释义 | ricklyadj. Scottish and English regional (northern). Rickety, ramshackle, tottering. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety seely1562 crazy1583 ramshackled1675 creachy1715 rickly1715 rickety1741 palsified1775 shackling1790 ramshackling1815 paralytic1824 rackety1824 rattletrap1824 cocklety1828 ramshackle1830 shickery?1833 shackly1843 shattery1844 shaky1850 ramshackly1857 cockly1859 rachitic1864 ruckly1866 tumble-over1883 palsied1889 rattle-bag1896 shauchly1896 bockety1902 ruggy1929 rickety-rackety1931 ropy1942 1715 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 361 The..Highlanders..will be..left to make the best of their way to their own reckly cells in the Braes of Athol. 1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxiii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 914 The stane-wa's about my farm are rather rickly. 1868 J. Young Poems 23 There's little doot awa I'd ran, Ca'd owre some kail-wife's rickly staun. 1880 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) at Ricklie That wa's gae rickly. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Rickley, loose, unstable, ricketty. 1928 J. G. Horne Lan'wart Loon 21 Ower a rickly brig an' stile. 1995 A. Fenton Craiters i. 26 Jist on e left inside es door wis anither, made o backs, an a bit rickly, an es let ye intill e aal lavvie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1715 |
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