rickety, rickets, onomatopoeic

The chosen words are mostly regional, often monosyllabic, and frequently richly onomatopoeic: the natural poetry of the heterogeneous English-speaking tongue. 

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Beyond the clearly imitative words, like the onomatopoeic “boom,” “poof” and “gong,” Blount zeroes in on the expressive words that “somehow sensuously evoke the essence of the word: ‘queasy’ or ‘rickety’ or ‘zest’ or ‘sluggish’ or ‘vim,’ ”he writes.

Pronunciation: /ˌɒnə(ʊ)matəˈpiːɪk/ 

Definition of onomatopoeic in English:

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adjective

Using or relating to onomatopoeia:onomatopoeic words like ‘bang’ and ‘coo’

rickety

Pronunciation: /ˈrɪkɪti/

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adjective

• 1(of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse:we went carefully up the rickety stairs figurativea rickety banking system

• 2affected by rickets: poverty was evident in undernourished faces or rickety legs

Derivatives

ricketiness

noun

Origin:

late 17th century: from rickets + -y¹

rickets

Pronunciation: /ˈrɪkɪts/

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noun

[mass noun treated as singular or plural] Medicine[名][U]《病理学》くる病, 骨軟化症.

• a disease of children caused by vitamin D deficiency, characterized by imperfect calcification, softening, and distortion of the bones typically resulting in bow legs.

Origin:

mid 17th century: perhaps an alteration of Greek rhakhitis (see rachitis)