Bockety is an adjective, probably from Irish, now entered in the Oxford English Dictionary. It can describe a person who has trouble walking or an object that’s gone rickety or run-down: my bockety old chair, say, or a bockety knee that won’t quite do its job. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Bockety” for a Bad Knee, a Wobbly Cart, or an Old Chair”
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Here’s another word recently introduced into the Oxford English Dictionary that probably comes from Irish.
The word is bockety. B-O-C-K-E-T-Y, bockety.
If you’re talking about a person who’s bockety, they have trouble walking.
But you can also use the word boccaty to refer to anything that’s fallen into a state of disrepair.
You know, my boccaty old chair over there.
But I love this term.
I’m going to start using it.
You know, you can talk about your boccaty knee won’t let you do this or that.
Oh, yeah.
It’s got a bit of rhythm already built into the word, right?
The awkwardness or the lack of balance is right there in boccaty, boccaty, boccaty, boccaty, boccaty.
It’s like a car with a bent axle.
Boggity, boggity, boggity, boggity.
Or the grocery cart that doesn’t roll well.
Right.
Or both the wheels go in the same direction.
Boggity, boggity, boggity, boggity.
