buckety
/ˈbʌkɪti/
buckety adjective: resembling or characteristic of a bucket.
Adjective
buckety (comparative more buckety, superlative most buckety)
- Resembling or characteristic of a bucket.
- If a few of those old swash-bucklers of the time could walk in, clad in buff leather and steel corselet, with waving plume, long, fierce, up-brushed mustache, keen rapier on thigh, or with hand on hilt bent forward, and just cocking up the back hem of broidered cloak, great buckety boots of...1883, Harper's Magazine, page 177
- After a little delay on account of shawls and umbrellas, we got off first in our boat — a regular buckety bouncy "four." The others followed in a pair-oar. After a mile's rowing we reached Temple, the first lock.1883, The School Magazine, page 297
Forms of buckety
| comparative | more buckety |
|---|---|
| superlative | most buckety |
Origin of buckety
From bucket + -y.
Questions about buckety
- What does buckety mean?
- Buckety means resembling or characteristic of a bucket.
- What part of speech is buckety?
- Buckety is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce buckety?
- Buckety is pronounced /ˈbʌkɪti/.
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