Definitions

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  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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From Rickett , a medieval diminutive of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.

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Examples

  • Truscelli did, but when he called Ricketts to tell him, he had to jog his memory.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Accountability '' is a word Ricketts used often Thursday during an interview with the Chicago media.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • Truscelli did, but when he called Ricketts to tell him, he had to jog his memory.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Truscelli did, but when he called Ricketts to tell him, he had to jog his memory.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local < 2010

  • Kim Ricketts is definitely on my “must-stop” list next time I’m in Seattle!

    Words, wine, American Buffalo & Nina Planck 2009

  • "Accountability '' is a word Ricketts used often Thursday during an interview with the Chicago media.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • "Ricketts," he said, "the man has got that will with him in the book-room at Llanfeare."

    Cousin Henry Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Doug Ricketts brought samples for the cabinet doors.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I met Doug Ricketts in the late 1990s when I was doing research in the archives of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, for the novel That Old Ace in the Hole.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I got a sample to send to Doug Ricketts so he could think about colors, as I thought intense saturated stained cabinet doors would satisfy my longing for brilliant color—this attraction maybe something about coming from northern climes, maybe some residual Québec taste.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

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