单词 |
rickety-rackety |
释义 |
ˈrickety-ˈrackety, a. [redupl. f. rickety a.] Unsteady; shaky; tottering.
1895Punch 21 Sept. 135 (caption) We're a rare old—fair old—rickety, rackety crew. 1931J. R. Macdonald in Times 5 Nov. 14/4 The whole world has got into what we in this corner of it would call a ricketty-racketty state. 1976D. Heffron Crusty Crossed v. 39 We were given some rickety-rackety set of train coaches with old wooden bench seats. |

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