ricky-ticky
/ˈrɪkiˌtɪki/slang (chiefly US )
adjective
Of music, especially jazz: old-fashioned, unsophisticated, trite; (of a band) performing such music. Also of a rhythm or tempo: even, repetitive, monotonous.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The Chicago Tribune. From ricky-tick + -y, probably in order to create a rhyming compound.
- colour cup
- colour-defective
- colour-de-roy
- colour diagram
- colour difference
- colour disc
- colour discrimination
- colour doctor
- colour duster
- colour dusting
- coloured
- coloured audition
- coloured clothes
- coloured hearing
- coloured pencil
- colour emphasis
- colourer
- colour expanse
- colour fast
- colour fastness
- colourfield
- colour-field painting
- colour film
- colour filter
- colour force