tchickn.

/tʃɪk/

Forms: also chick, tchek.

Etymology: Representing the click made by pressing some part of the tongue against the palate and withdrawing it with suction.

Properly, the unilateral palatal click, used to urge on a horse; in quot. 1849 for tchick vb. at Derivatives, the dental click used to express vexation (in this case also spelt 'ts, or tut).

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. iv. 92 Summing up the whole with a provoking wink, and such an interjectional tchick as men quicken a dull horse with.

Derivatives

tchick v. (intransitive) to utter this exclamation, or to make a sound resembling it.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. vii. 132 We heard Benjie gee-hupping, tchek-tcheking, and above all, flogging in great style.

1849 Mrs. Carlyle in Lett. (1883) II. 55 The young lady tchick-tchicked, and looked deprecatingly.

1887 Harper's Mag. Dec. 32/2 ‘That thar's moughty good string’,..Sterling could not refrain from observing, as the stout twine ‘tchicked’ in several pieces under a garden knife.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	tchick
释义	tchickn. /tʃɪk/ Forms: also chick, tchek. Etymology: Representing the click made by pressing some part of the tongue against the palate and withdrawing it with suction. Properly, the unilateral palatal click, used to urge on a horse; in quot. 1849 for tchick vb. at Derivatives, the dental click used to express vexation (in this case also spelt 'ts, or tut). Π 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. iv. 92 Summing up the whole with a provoking wink, and such an interjectional tchick as men quicken a dull horse with. Derivatives tchick v. (intransitive) to utter this exclamation, or to make a sound resembling it. Π 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. vii. 132 We heard Benjie gee-hupping, tchek-tcheking, and above all, flogging in great style. 1849 Mrs. Carlyle in Lett. (1883) II. 55 The young lady tchick-tchicked, and looked deprecatingly. 1887 Harper's Mag. Dec. 32/2 ‘That thar's moughty good string’,..Sterling could not refrain from observing, as the stout twine ‘tchicked’ in several pieces under a garden knife. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1823
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