checkedy

[chek-i-dee]

adjective

1. checkered; having a checked pattern.

Word History and Origins

Origin of checkedy¹

1915–20, apparently checked + -y ¹

Example Sentences

He jest laugh and slap my behind and set me up on de hoss in front of one de men and dey take me off and leave my good checkedy dress at de house!

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He git some purty checkedy cloth one time, and everybody git a dress or a shirt made off'n it.

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In summer time us wore checkedy dresses made wid low waistes and gethered skirts, but in winter de dresses was made out of linsey-woolsey cloth and underclothes was made out of coarse unbleached cloth.

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