brackety

English

Etymology

From bracket +‎ -y.

Adjective

brackety (comparative more brackety, superlative most brackety)

1. (informal) Resembling or containing brackets (the typographical symbols).
   • 2011, Alan Simpson, Margaret Levine Young, Alison Barrows, Microsoft Office Access 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies:

     Each of these brackety things is a placeholder for an argument that you need to type in.

   • 2012, V M Jones, Beyond the Shroud:

     But the weird thing was, there was no working-out at all — just the sum, with that brackety thing with the line on top, and the answer written up above it, tidy as you like.