tick-tackn.

/ˈtɪkˌtak/

Forms: Also 1500s Scottish tik tak, 1600s tic-tack, tick(e)-tacke, 1600s–1800s tic-tac.

Etymology: Echoic: so Dutch, Norwegian tiktak , Swedish, Danish, German tick-tack , French tic-tac . In sense 2 an adaptation or kind of translation of French trictrac , a similar echoic word: see tric-trac n.

a. An imitation of a reduplicated or alternating ticking sound, esp. that made by a clock (see tick n.³ 2); also that of the firing of small artillery. (Used as adv. or int., and hence as n. to denote the sound.)

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adverb] > ticking

tick-tackc1550

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [interjection] > tick

tick-tackc1550

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > regular or alternating rhythm > ticking

tick-tackc1550

tick1680

ticking1748

tick-ticka1777

tick-tock1847

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tick-a-tack1898

tick-tockinga1947

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Than the smal artailȝe cryit, tik tak tik tak tik tak tik tak.

17.. in Ritson's Gamm. Gurton's Garl. (1783) 53 Here a nail, there a nail, Tick, tack, too.

1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 54 I am quite tired of your [a clock's] tick tack.

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table viii Our brains are seventy-year clocks... Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought.

1909 Daily Chron. 12 June 5/1 A Gatling gun..played upon the infantry..; one heard the ‘tick-tack’, ‘tick-tack’ of the spitting fire.

b. In auscultation, The sound of the heart-beat. (Usually in French form tic-tac.)

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [noun] > sounds heard in auscultation

bombus1753

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tick-tack1853

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > heartbeat > [noun] > sound of

tick-tack1853

1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 175 The normal sounds of the heart are generally indicated by the expression ‘tic-tac’... This tic-tac I call the sounds (Töne) of the heart... By murmurs (Geräusche) I understand the abnormal sounds..blowing, sawing, rasping, etc.

1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 207 I have occasionally heard two sounds..in the place of the proper second sound: thus, instead of the ordinary ‘tic-tac’, a ‘tic-tac-tac’.

1860 J. M. Carnochan Operat. Surg. 136 (Cent. Dict.) The normal tick-tack of the heart beat with healthy precision.

c. Chiefly North American. A contrivance, such as a button on a piece of thread, spun to make a clattering sound against a window or door as a practical joke, esp. at Halloween.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > rattles or whirrers > [noun]

hurr1483

hurre-bone1483

rattle1519

rittle-rattle1567

clickets1611

bummer1821

bullroarer1848

thunderer1860

whizzer188.

tick-tack1884

whizzing-stick1890

whizzing-blade1905

1884 I. M. Rittenhouse Jrnl. in Maud (1939) 288 I formed plan after plan to frighten them. Finally a ‘tick-tack’ was decided on.

1947 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Oct. 16/3 The Park has decided to have an old-time Hallowe'en, with the old boys puttin' tick-tacks on windows.

d. transferred.

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1927 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 63 Seeing the white monkeys for ever mechanically bossing, with their incessant tick-tack of work.

1934 S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 133 ‘God’ he exclaimed, executing a kind of passionate tick-tack through his pockets.

†2. An old variety of backgammon, played on a board with holes along the edge, in which pegs were placed for scoring. Also figurative. Obsolete. (Also called tric-trac n. in French trictrac.)

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > varieties of backgammon

faylesc1330

provinciala1500

Irish game1509

Irishc1530

queen's gamec1557

tick-tack1558

sice-ace1594

doublet1611

lurch1611

tric-trac1687

verquerea1700

chouette1935

sheshbesh1971

1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) xi. 28 To pastyme at Tables, Tick-tacke or Gleeke.

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. iii, in Wks. I. 36 Hee'll play, At Fayles, and Tick-tack, I haue heard him sweare.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) iv. vi. 396 They play much at Tables, Commonly Tick Tack and lurch, but never at Irish.

1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy Fortunate Country Maid II. 187 Sometimes we plaid at Tick-tack.

3. = tick-tacker n. at Derivatives.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > semaphore > [noun] > one who practices

tick-tack1918

1918 G. Frankau One of Them xxi. 159 Silent the tic-tac's tell-tale Semaphore: On thousand tracks, unridden,..Hay waves.

Compounds

†C1. attributive. Belonging, or addicted, to the game of tick-tack. Obsolete.

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1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ii. 119 If he be a drunken alestake, a ticktack tauerner.

1665 in Boston Transcript 17 Sept. (1910) ii. 8/1 Two tick tack tables.

1665 in Boston Transcript 17 Sept. (1910) ii. 8/1 A tick tack board with the pieces.

C2. slang. Applied to a system of ‘telegraphy’ or signalling used by bookmakers at race-meetings, and hence to the men who practise this (cf. ticker n.³ 1b).

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [adjective] > signalling system

tick-tack1899

1899 Daily News 15 Mar. 5/5 Another class who are persecuted most absurdly, as it seems to me, are the ‘tick tack’ men.

1905 Daily Chron. 1 Feb. 3/6 A prisoner puzzled the Kingston Bench by describing himself as ‘a racecourse telegraphist’... A detective explained that the man practised what is known as ‘tick-tack telegraphy’—signalling by means of the arms to outside bookmakers.

Derivatives

tick-tacker n. one who practises tick-tack telegraphy.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker > book-maker's assistant

penciller1879

tick-tacker1912

settler1963

pickup man1964

1912 Daily News 28 Mar. 4 Bookies, tipsters, tick-tackers, runners, welshers, backers, and all the great army who go racing.

tick-tacking adj. making an alternating ticking sound.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adjective] > regular or alternating rhythm > ticking

ticking1566

tick-tacking1842

1842 Father Oswald xii. 117 The death-watch..is a little tick-tacking noise.

a1847 E. Cook Old Mill-stream xxi Thy pouring cascade, and the tic-tac-ing mill.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

tick-tackv.

Forms: Also tic tac, tic-tac.

Etymology: < tick-tack n.

1. intransitive. = tick-tock v.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > tick

tick1721

tick-tick1755

tick-tack1842

tock1913

tick-tock1921

1842 [implied in: Father Oswald xii. 117 The death-watch..is a little tick-tacking noise. (at tick-tacking adj. at tick-tack n. Derivatives)].

a1847 [implied in: E. Cook Old Mill-stream xxi Thy pouring cascade, and the tic-tac-ing mill. (at tick-tacking adj. at tick-tack n. Derivatives)].

1859 H. B. Stowe Minister's Wooing ii. 17 The solemn old clock that tick-tacked in the corner.

2. intransitive and transitive. To produce a whirring, clattering sound by spinning a tick-tack (sense 1c) against a window, etc., as a practical joke. dialect and North American.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > rattles or whirrers > rattle or whirr [verb]

tick-tack1901

1901 F. E. Taylor Folk-speech S. Lancs. (at cited word) Tick-tackin', a boys' practical joke. See Window-tackin'.

1970 J. H. Gray Boy from Winnipeg 188 We got tired of the project and abandoned it in favour of ringing doorbells and tick-tacking windows.

3. transitive and intransitive. To signal (information) by means of tick-tack telegraphy.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > semaphore > [verb (intransitive)] > signal information

tick-tack1907

society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > semaphore > [verb (transitive)] > signal information

tick-tack1907

1907 Favourite 30 Nov. 9/3 Kilbeg was ‘tick-tacked’ out at 4 to 1 by the private clerk of one particular firm.

1908 Tatler 3 June 247 The above system of signalling, which is known as tick-tacking, may be seen on any racecourse.

1927 Observer 27 Mar. 18/6 A man in the body of the hall was detected tictacing to Labour supporters and guiding the uproar.

1937 L. Mann Murder in Sydney xxv. 273 I also noticed Leon Caspar ticktacking to the girl in response to which the girl challenged two of those called on the panel.

1972 Guardian 11 Aug. 8/6 The policeman tic-taced to the judge what the punishment should be.

Derivatives

tick-tack n.

(see quot. 1922).

1922 Notes & Queries 12th Ser. 11 207/2 Tick-tack[s]. The agents of bookmakers who, by a code of manual signals, inform those who employ them of happenings in the betting rings which influence the odds offered.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	tick-tack
释义	tick-tackn. /ˈtɪkˌtak/ Forms: Also 1500s Scottish tik tak, 1600s tic-tack, tick(e)-tacke, 1600s–1800s tic-tac. Etymology: Echoic: so Dutch, Norwegian tiktak , Swedish, Danish, German tick-tack , French tic-tac . In sense 2 an adaptation or kind of translation of French trictrac , a similar echoic word: see tric-trac n. 1. a. An imitation of a reduplicated or alternating ticking sound, esp. that made by a clock (see tick n.³ 2); also that of the firing of small artillery. (Used as adv. or int., and hence as n. to denote the sound.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adverb] > ticking tick-tackc1550 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [interjection] > tick tick-tackc1550 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > regular or alternating rhythm > ticking tick-tackc1550 tick1680 ticking1748 tick-ticka1777 tick-tock1847 tick-ticking1897 tick-a-tack1898 tick-tockinga1947 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Than the smal artailȝe cryit, tik tak tik tak tik tak tik tak. 17.. in Ritson's Gamm. Gurton's Garl. (1783) 53 Here a nail, there a nail, Tick, tack, too. 1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 54 I am quite tired of your [a clock's] tick tack. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table viii Our brains are seventy-year clocks... Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought. 1909 Daily Chron. 12 June 5/1 A Gatling gun..played upon the infantry..; one heard the ‘tick-tack’, ‘tick-tack’ of the spitting fire. b. In auscultation, The sound of the heart-beat. (Usually in French form tic-tac.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [noun] > sounds heard in auscultation bombus1753 hydatism1753 pectoriloquism1820 murmur1821 resonance1821 snoring1822 thrill1822 râle1825 pectoriloquy1826 respiration1826 rhonchus1827 bronchophonism1834 bronchophony1834 hum1839 tick-tack1853 friction-sound1860 friction-fremitus1877 sibilus1887 the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > heartbeat > [noun] > sound of tick-tack1853 1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 175 The normal sounds of the heart are generally indicated by the expression ‘tic-tac’... This tic-tac I call the sounds (Töne) of the heart... By murmurs (Geräusche) I understand the abnormal sounds..blowing, sawing, rasping, etc. 1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 207 I have occasionally heard two sounds..in the place of the proper second sound: thus, instead of the ordinary ‘tic-tac’, a ‘tic-tac-tac’. 1860 J. M. Carnochan Operat. Surg. 136 (Cent. Dict.) The normal tick-tack of the heart beat with healthy precision. c. Chiefly North American. A contrivance, such as a button on a piece of thread, spun to make a clattering sound against a window or door as a practical joke, esp. at Halloween. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > rattles or whirrers > [noun] hurr1483 hurre-bone1483 rattle1519 rittle-rattle1567 clickets1611 bummer1821 bullroarer1848 thunderer1860 whizzer188. tick-tack1884 whizzing-stick1890 whizzing-blade1905 1884 I. M. Rittenhouse Jrnl. in Maud (1939) 288 I formed plan after plan to frighten them. Finally a ‘tick-tack’ was decided on. 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Oct. 16/3 The Park has decided to have an old-time Hallowe'en, with the old boys puttin' tick-tacks on windows. d. transferred. ΚΠ 1927 D. H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico 63 Seeing the white monkeys for ever mechanically bossing, with their incessant tick-tack of work. 1934 S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 133 ‘God’ he exclaimed, executing a kind of passionate tick-tack through his pockets. †2. An old variety of backgammon, played on a board with holes along the edge, in which pegs were placed for scoring. Also figurative. Obsolete. (Also called tric-trac n. in French trictrac.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > varieties of backgammon faylesc1330 provinciala1500 Irish game1509 Irishc1530 queen's gamec1557 tick-tack1558 sice-ace1594 doublet1611 lurch1611 tric-trac1687 verquerea1700 chouette1935 sheshbesh1971 1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) xi. 28 To pastyme at Tables, Tick-tacke or Gleeke. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) iii. iii, in Wks. I. 36 Hee'll play, At Fayles, and Tick-tack, I haue heard him sweare. a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) iv. vi. 396 They play much at Tables, Commonly Tick Tack and lurch, but never at Irish. 1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy Fortunate Country Maid II. 187 Sometimes we plaid at Tick-tack. 3. = tick-tacker n. at Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > semaphore > [noun] > one who practices tick-tack1918 1918 G. Frankau One of Them xxi. 159 Silent the tic-tac's tell-tale Semaphore: On thousand tracks, unridden,..Hay waves. Compounds †C1. attributive. Belonging, or addicted, to the game of tick-tack. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ii. 119 If he be a drunken alestake, a ticktack tauerner. 1665 in Boston Transcript 17 Sept. (1910) ii. 8/1 Two tick tack tables. 1665 in Boston Transcript 17 Sept. (1910) ii. 8/1 A tick tack board with the pieces. C2. slang. Applied to a system of ‘telegraphy’ or signalling used by bookmakers at race-meetings, and hence to the men who practise this (cf. ticker n.³ 1b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [adjective] > signalling system tick-tack1899 1899 Daily News 15 Mar. 5/5 Another class who are persecuted most absurdly, as it seems to me, are the ‘tick tack’ men. 1905 Daily Chron. 1 Feb. 3/6 A prisoner puzzled the Kingston Bench by describing himself as ‘a racecourse telegraphist’... A detective explained that the man practised what is known as ‘tick-tack telegraphy’—signalling by means of the arms to outside bookmakers. Derivatives tick-tacker n. one who practises tick-tack telegraphy. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker > book-maker's assistant penciller1879 tick-tacker1912 settler1963 pickup man1964 1912 Daily News 28 Mar. 4 Bookies, tipsters, tick-tackers, runners, welshers, backers, and all the great army who go racing. tick-tacking adj. making an alternating ticking sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adjective] > regular or alternating rhythm > ticking ticking1566 tick-tacking1842 1842 Father Oswald xii. 117 The death-watch..is a little tick-tacking noise. a1847 E. Cook Old Mill-stream xxi Thy pouring cascade, and the tic-tac-ing mill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). tick-tackv. Forms: Also tic tac, tic-tac. Etymology: < tick-tack n. 1. intransitive. = tick-tock v. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > tick tick1721 tick-tick1755 tick-tack1842 tock1913 tick-tock1921 1842 [implied in: Father Oswald xii. 117 The death-watch..is a little tick-tacking noise. (at tick-tacking adj. at tick-tack n. Derivatives)]. a1847 [implied in: E. Cook Old Mill-stream xxi Thy pouring cascade, and the tic-tac-ing mill. (at tick-tacking adj. at tick-tack n. Derivatives)]. 1859 H. B. Stowe Minister's Wooing ii. 17 The solemn old clock that tick-tacked in the corner. 2. intransitive and transitive. To produce a whirring, clattering sound by spinning a tick-tack (sense 1c) against a window, etc., as a practical joke. dialect and North American. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > rattles or whirrers > rattle or whirr [verb] tick-tack1901 1901 F. E. Taylor Folk-speech S. Lancs. (at cited word) Tick-tackin', a boys' practical joke. See Window-tackin'. 1970 J. H. Gray Boy from Winnipeg 188 We got tired of the project and abandoned it in favour of ringing doorbells and tick-tacking windows. 3. transitive and intransitive. To signal (information) by means of tick-tack telegraphy. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > semaphore > [verb (intransitive)] > signal information tick-tack1907 society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > semaphore > [verb (transitive)] > signal information tick-tack1907 1907 Favourite 30 Nov. 9/3 Kilbeg was ‘tick-tacked’ out at 4 to 1 by the private clerk of one particular firm. 1908 Tatler 3 June 247 The above system of signalling, which is known as tick-tacking, may be seen on any racecourse. 1927 Observer 27 Mar. 18/6 A man in the body of the hall was detected tictacing to Labour supporters and guiding the uproar. 1937 L. Mann Murder in Sydney xxv. 273 I also noticed Leon Caspar ticktacking to the girl in response to which the girl challenged two of those called on the panel. 1972 Guardian 11 Aug. 8/6 The policeman tic-taced to the judge what the punishment should be. Derivatives tick-tack n. (see quot. 1922). 1922 Notes & Queries 12th Ser. 11 207/2 Tick-tack[s]. The agents of bookmakers who, by a code of manual signals, inform those who employ them of happenings in the betting rings which influence the odds offered. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1550v.1842
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