tackety

My feet encased in stout "tackety" boots, I had waded down two of Waster Lunny's fields to the glen burn: in summer the never-failing larder from which, with wriggling worm or garish fly, I can any morning whip a savory breakfast; in the winter time the only thing in the valley that defies the ice-king's chloroform.

Auld Licht Idyls 1898

My feet encased in stout "tackety" boots, I had waded down two of Waster Lunny's fields to the glen burn: in summer the never-failing larder from which, with wriggling worm or garish fly,

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

Bandy cam 'doon wi' his tackety buit on the boddom o 'the butter kit, an' in it gaed, an 'him wi't, an' there he was, clappin 'his hands, an' stanin 'juist like's he'd on a wid crinoline.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Next morning Postie came clattering through the paved yard in his tackety boots, and handed in a blue envelope at the back door with a business-like air, his ferrety eyes searching Mrs. Gourlay's face as she took the letter from his hand.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

One night when the boys were particularly noisy she burst like a hurricane into the hall, collared a youngster, and told him he was "the ramp-ingest-scampingest-rackety-tackety-tow-row-roaringest boy in the whole school."

Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868

A few days after the half year had commenced, there being some little extra noise in the hall, she rushed in with her spectacles on her forehead and her cap strings flying, and called the boy whom Ernest had selected as his hero the "rampingest-scampingest-rackety-tackety-tow-row-roaringest boy in the whole school."

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868