different between brickety vs crickety

English

Adjective

brickety (comparative more brickety, superlative most brickety)

1. (Southern US, dated) fidgety, meddlesome

   • Answer. They are all brickety.

   • 1887, William Eleazar Barton, The Wind-up of the Big Meetin' on No Bus'ness

     "Lindy's a mighty fine gal," he soliloquized, "but she's mighty feisty by spells. Suthin' 'r nuther has got her to feelin' brickety, an' she's just a devilin' me for a spell."

   • 1917, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Isaac Kaufman Funk, William Seaver Woods, Arthur Stimson Draper, Wilfred John Funk, The Literary Digest

     “Air you one of them brickety doctors that don't aim to let any one help a sufi'erin' human out 'cause they think they knows it all?" she demanded.

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

cricket (“insect”) +? -y

Adjective

crickety (comparative more crickety, superlative most crickety)

1. Of or pertaining to crickets.
2. Full of crickets.

   a crickety night

Etymology 2

cricket (“sport”) +? -y

Adjective

crickety (comparative more crickety, superlative most crickety)

1. (informal) Of or pertaining to the sport of cricket.

Etymology 3

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Interjection

crickety

1. Alternative form of crikey

Derived terms

• by crickety