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Narrator: Today's word is "Rickety" — adjective, pronounced /ˈrɪkəti/, with the stress on "rick".
Narrator: Rickety means in poor condition and likely to break or collapse.
Narrator: In plain English, it means wobbly and unsafe.
Narrator: It comes from rickets, the disease that made children's legs weak.
Narrator: A common collocation is "rickety old bridge", which describes a shaky crossing.
Narrator: It differs from "old", because old things can be sturdy, while rickety things wobble.
Narrator: In a second sense, a rickety economy or plan is weak and unreliable.
Narrator: Building, travel, journalism and fiction all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: rickety means it might fall apart.
Speaker A: Should I sit on that chair?
Speaker B: No, it's RICKETY! It comes from rickets, the bone disease.
Speaker A: One leg is loose?
Speaker B: Two, actually.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "We crossed a rickety rope bridge", travel. "The rickety shed blew down", a storm. "The coalition looks rickety", politics.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it "rickety", with "-ety", not "rickity".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Wobbly is its cousin, shaky its twin, and flimsy an alternative — yet rickety keeps its creaky charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "rickety" in AI prompts — useful for property surveys and fiction.
Speaker A: How for surveys?
Speaker B: Flag risks.
Prompt: List safety checks for a rickety garden shed before anyone uses it.
Speaker A: And fiction?
Speaker B: Set the scene.
Prompt: Describe a rickety fairground ride at night in two vivid sentences.
Speaker A: Could it help code reviews?
Speaker B: Yes, for fragility.
Prompt: Point out rickety parts of this code that are likely to break.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Repairs.
Prompt: Give steps to fix a rickety kitchen table with basic tools.
Rickety — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary