buckety

English

Etymology

bucket +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌkɪti/

Adjective

buckety (comparative more buckety, superlative most buckety)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bucket.
   • 1883, Harper's Magazine, page 177:

     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 Cordovan leather, with jingling spur of inch-long rowels at heel;

   • 1883, The School Magazine, page 297:

     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.

   • 2012, Janice Zalewski, The Unraveling … of the Rug Merchants, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 341:

     She slides his bronze buckety looking thing over, turns it upside down, and plops her feet on it.