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brickety

brickety adjective: fidgety, meddlesome.

Adjective

brickety (comparative more brickety, superlative most brickety)

  1. (Southern US, dated) fidgety, meddlesome
    • Question. They must be a brickety family, if both the boys are brickety?
    • Answer. They are all brickety.1872, Harriet Hernandes questioned by Philadelph Van Trump, Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, page 590

Examples of brickety in a sentence

  • Suthin' 'r nuther has got her to feelin' brickety, an' she's just a devilin' me for a spell."1887, William Eleazar Barton, The Wind-up of the Big Meetin' on No Bus'ness:
  • “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.1917, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Isaac Kaufman Funk, William Seaver Woods, Arthur Stimson Draper, Wilfred John Funk, The Literary Digest:

Forms of brickety

comparativemore brickety
superlativemost brickety

Questions about brickety

What does brickety mean?
Brickety means fidgety, meddlesome.
How do you use brickety in a sentence?
Suthin' 'r nuther has got her to feelin' brickety, an' she's just a devilin' me for a spell."
What part of speech is brickety?
Brickety is an adjective.

Words near brickety in the dictionary

  1. brickers
  2. brickery
  3. Bricket Wood
  4. brickette
  5. brickettes
  6. brickety
  7. brickety-brack
  8. Brickey
  9. Brickeys
  10. brickfield
  11. brickfielder

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