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rackety [rak-i-tee] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for rackety on Thesaurus.com adjective
- making or causing a racket; noisy.
- fond of excitement or dissipation.
Origin of rackety First recorded in 1765–75; racket1 + -y1 Related Words for rackety cacophonous, vociferous, rambunctious, rowdy, clamorous, boisterous, strident, riotous, blatant, deafening, disorderly, obstreperous, piercing, raspy, turbulent, uproarious, booming, blusterous, chattering, clangorous Examples from the Web for rackety Contemporary Examples of rackety
A rackety chorus of crickets and frogs forms the nightly soundtrack to Bermudian life.
How John Lennon Rediscovered His Music in Bermuda
The Telegraph
November 3, 2013
Historical Examples of rackety
All have turned out so well, not one of them rackety, you know.
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884.
Various
In the lake they play, The beautiful duckAnd the rackety summer boy.
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
They were the marks of what was evidently an old and rackety conveyance.
Firth Scott
He has been a rackety one, and I fear he is not much better now.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine – Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
Various
He had been “rackety,” and had been punished: that was the substance of the tale.
George Sturt (AKA George Bourne)
British Dictionary definitions for rackety rackety adjective
- noisy, rowdy, or boisterous
- socially lively and, sometimes, mildly dissolutea rackety life