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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).
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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.
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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).
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