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rickety

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rickety/ˈrɪkəti/

▶adjective

1 poorly made and likely to collapse.

2 suffering from rickets.

– derivatives
ricketiness noun.

– origin C17: from rickets + -y1.

'rickety' also found in these Oxford entries:

rattler - rattletrap

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