Buckety
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Resembling or characteristic of a bucket.
"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;"
Example
More examples"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;"
Etymology
From bucket + -y.
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