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brackety

adj

Etymology

From bracket + -y.

  1. derived from *brōks✻ — “leggings, breeches, trousers”
  2. derived from *brāca✻
  3. derived from brāca — “pants”
  4. derived from braga
  5. derived from brague — “knickers, britches”
  6. derived from braguette
  7. inherited from *braget✻
  8. suffixed as brackety — “bracket + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or containing brackets (the typographical symbols).

    • Each of these brackety things is a placeholder for an argument that you need to type in.
    • But the weird thing was, there was no working-out at all — just the sum, with that brackety thing with the line on top, and the answer written up above it, tidy as you like.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA