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crickety

crickety

1 9.9
Full of soft chirping sounds made by crickets at night
  • adjective
  • /ˈkrɪkɪti/
: chirriante
  • Her backyard became quite crickety as dusk settled in.

Examples

  • We camped in a crickety meadow where the sound of insects filled the air.

  • The crickety sound filled the warm summer night.

  • The summer night was especially crickety with the constant chirping outside the window.

  • I love the crickety ambiance of the countryside.

  • As the sun set, the air became crickety with the sounds of chirping insects.

  • The garden was alive with a crickety atmosphere, full of the buzzing sounds of crickets.

  • Sitting outside at night, we enjoyed the crickety ambiance created by the chorus of crickets.

Surface Forms

crickety positive

Morphology

crickety = cricket (transparent) = cricket + y

Formed by the regular adjective-forming suffix '-y' on 'cricket', so the meaning 'characteristic of or full of crickets' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Crickety comes from the word cricket (the little insect) plus the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'like'. It gives the image of a place filled with cricket chirps, so crickety means 'resembling or full of crickets'.