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English
Adjective
brickety (comparative more brickety, superlative most brickety)
- (Southern US, dated) fidgety, meddlesome
1872, Harriet Hernandes questioned by Philadelph Van Trump, Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, page 590:Question. They must be a brickety family, if both the boys are brickety?
Answer. They are all brickety.
1887, William Eleazar Barton, The Wind-up of the Big Meetin' on No Bus'ness:"Lindy's a mighty fine gal," he soliloquized, "but she's mighty feisty by spells. Suthin' 'r nuther has got her to feelin' brickety, an' she's just a devilin' me for a spell."
1917, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Isaac Kaufman Funk, William Seaver Woods, Arthur Stimson Draper, Wilfred John Funk, The Literary Digest:“Air you one of them brickety doctors that don't aim to let any one help a sufi'erin' human out 'cause they think they knows it all?" she demanded.
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