ricket

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A racket or disturbance. dialectal,obsolete
  2. A policeman's rattle. dialectal,obsolete
  3. An error; a mistake. dialectal
    — Superintendent Butler said that after he had been questioned at Cannon Row police station Wilson said, "You obviously know a lot. I've made a ricket somewhere. I'll have to take my chance. I don't see how you can make it stick without the poppy—and you won't find that."
动词 v.
  1. To move rapidly and uncertainly, often in a noisy, clamorous, or reckless manner. transitive
    — As it stands now, Earth's own structure must go ricketing down in the near future, the Outer Worlds will slowly degenerate and decay in a somewhat further future, but the new colonies will be a new and healthy strain, combining the best of both cultures.
形容词 adj.
  1. Unsteady, rickety. dialectal,obsolete

词形变化

more ricket comparative most ricket superlative rickets present,singular,third-person ricketing participle,present ricketed participle,past ricketed past rickets plural

词汇关系

相关词
rickets rickety

词源

词源 1
From a dialectal past participle of rick (“to rattle, jiggle, make a noise”), equivalent to rick + -et.
词源 2
Uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of racket, influenced by Etymology 1 above, or perhaps related to Norwegian Nynorsk rikta (“to make a noise, creak”).
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