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[ rak-i-tee ] / ˈræk ɪ ti / SEE SYNONYMS FOR rackety ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivemaking or causing a racket; noisy. fond of excitement or dissipation. Origin of racketyFirst recorded in 1765–75; racket1 + -y1 Words nearby racketyracketeering, racket press, rackets, rackett, racket-tail, rackety, Rackham, racking, rackle, rack locomotive, rack off Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for racketyA rackety chorus of crickets and frogs forms the nightly soundtrack to Bermudian life. How John Lennon Rediscovered His Music in Bermuda|The Telegraph|November 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST "Well, it's true we are rather a rackety lot nowadays," he said. The Honour of the Clintons|Archibald Marshall What had possessed him to give his card to a rackety young fellow, who went about with a thing like that? The Forsyte Saga, Volume III.|John Galsworthy We both loved a jolly, rackety life—that was all; she was too flighty for affection, and I too dissipated for serious attachment. The International Magazine, Vol. IV. New-York, December 1, 1851. No. V.|Various
Now the stateliest craft that ride the Cockney surge are the rackety penny packet and dingily plebeian coal barge. The Haunts of Old Cockaigne|Alex Thompson In the lake they play, The beautiful duckAnd the rackety summer boy. Here and Now Story Book|Lucy Sprague Mitchell
British Dictionary definitions for rackety
adjectivenoisy, rowdy, or boisterous socially lively and, sometimes, mildly dissolutea rackety life Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to racketycacophonous, vociferous, rambunctious, rowdy, clamorous, boisterous, strident, riotous, blatant, deafening, disorderly, jumping, obstreperous, piercing, raspy, turbulent, uproarious, booming, blusterous, chattering |