tickeyn.

Brit.

/ˈtɪki/, U.S.

/ˈtɪki/, South African English

/ˈtɪki/

Forms: 1800s– tickey, 1800s– ticky, 1800s ticcy, 1800s tickie, 1900s tikkie, 1900s tiekie.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed.Perhaps immediately < Afrikaans tiekie (1855 in sense 1), although the etymology of this word is unclear: it is possible that it represents a borrowing of the present word, or that both the English and the Afrikaans coin names share a common etymon. Although their relative priority is unclear, early quotation evidence suggests that English tickey and Afrikaans tiekie both ultimately reflect borrowing from a Nguni language. Suggested candidates include Xhosa -ncinci (adjective stem) small, or Zulu icici , Xhosa icici earring (with the initial t- in English and Afrikaans representing the dental click represented by c in the Nguni words). With the first of these possibilities compare the following earlier example, in which tick , alluding to the small silver threepenny piece, is contrasted with inkulu (compare Xhosa enkulu , Zulu enkulu , both ‘large, great’), designating the larger copper penny:1855 R. J. Mullins Diary 13 May in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) at Tickey The Kafirs do not understand the value of anything except 3d. bits...They will take nothing below ‘Tick’, as they call it, whereas some time ago they wanted 1d. for everything because it was ‘inkulu’ (large) money.Perhaps compare also Dutch tikje (colloquial) small amount, small thing, little bit (1847–8; < tik pat, touch (see tick n.³) + -je , diminutive suffix). Coin names in African languages. Words of similar form and sense to the present word are attested in the Nguni languages (compare Zulu itiki , Xhosa itiki , both ‘silver threepenny piece’), although their origin is uncertain: they have often been seen as borrowings of the South African English coin name, although numerous other etymologies have been proposed. For instance, it has been suggested that they may rather be representations in the sound systems of those languages of various words in Dutch and English, including Dutch stukje small coin (1548; < stuk coin, piece, bit (see stock n.¹) + -je , diminutive suffix), ticket n.¹ (with supposed allusion to vouchers worth threepence which were sometimes used to pay workers in the Transvaal in the 19th cent.: see good-for n.), or English regional ticky, recorded from Wiltshire in the late 19th cent. in the expression ticky pig, the smallest piglet in a litter. It is also possible that the present word represents a borrowing from Zulu itiki or Xhosa itiki, although evidence to verify this is lacking. Perhaps compare also Southern Sotho teke tickey (plural diteke tickeys, money). For further discussion of these and other etymological possibilities, see Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) at tickey n.; for discussion of the relationship between this word and Afrikaans tiekie, see also G. J. van Wyk Etimologiewoordeboek van Afrikaans (2003) at tiekie n.

South African colloquial.

1. In the pre-decimal currency of South Africa and the preceding British colonies of southern Africa: a small silver threepenny piece. Also (usually in negative contexts): a very small amount of money, a trifling sum (cf. penny n. 3c, cent n.¹ 4). Now chiefly historical. N.E.D. (1912) comments: ‘a1860 Remembered in colloquial use at Cape Town.’The threepenny piece was formerly used to pay for calls from public telephones (see tickey box n. (b) at Compounds 2), and was withdrawn from circulation in 1961 upon decimalization of the South African currency. The term has also sometimes been applied to an equivalent 2½-cent coin which existed for a short time after this date, and later a 2-cent coin.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > African coins

Morisk1525

tickey1868

ngwee1966

Kruger rand1967

likuta1967

sengi1967

zaire1967

naira1972

lilangeni1974

birr1976

kwanza1977

loti1979

sente1980

1868 Female Missionary Intelligencer 1 Apr. 64 [South Africa] Some [of my class] came to me with pence, tickies, and sixpences, and before three weeks I had received £1 2s. 1d.

1871 Cape Argus (S. Afr.) 26 Aug. 2 The Fields have not proved themselves worthy of ‘The Golden Dream’, in which so many indulged, but yet they really might do more than descend to the vulgar tickey.

1900 B. Mitford Aletta 57 His life would not be worth a tickey. They would shoot him.

1963 Rand Daily Mail 11 May 1 Thousands of South Africans..are opposed to the Government plan to abolish the traditional ‘tickey’ (2½c).

1990 Weekend Argus (Cape Town) 17 Feb. 16 Gold Burgerpond 1874, rare genuine Sammy Marks gold tickey 1898, gold Kruger Rands.

2020 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 5 Mar. (E1 ed.) 11 The reverse of the much smaller tickey coin depicts a gloved hand holding the retinal cryoprobe..and the denomination 2c.

2. A nickname for: a very small or short person.

ΚΠ

1911 L. Cohen Reminisc. of Kimberley 64 As for ‘Tickey’ Erlich, he'd hardly been conceived, much less invented.

1965 S. Dederick Tickey 19 ‘Oh, Rebeccah, is that why I'm called Tickey?’ ‘Dat was the name I give you. I jes' said to Merrem, let's call her Tickey, she's so small.’

2019 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 6 Oct. 17 A ferocious scrumhalf nicknamed ‘Tickey’ because of his 1.6m height.

Phrases

P1. on a tickey: in a small area or circle (esp. with reference to the ability of a vehicle to turn or manoeuvre within a small space); accurately; rapidly. Cf. on a sixpence at sixpence n. Additions, on a dime at dime n. Additions.

ΚΠ

1960 Afr. Roads & Transport May–June 1 (advt.) ‘Turns on a Tickey’... The Fordson Power Dumper, capable of turning through an angle of 90°, is the modern answer to efficient site clearance in confined areas and economic short-distance haulage.

1971 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) (at cited word) I've learned to turn the wheelchair on a tickey.

1992 J. Van der Horst in Sunday Times (S. Afr.) 23 Aug. (Business Times) 2 This market can turn on a tickey..and the cost of missing the opportunity when the market does rally is much higher.

2016 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 5 Apr. Schultz said the T20 format had changed one of the tenets of bowling. ‘When I was growing up, everything was about landing the ball on a tickey,’ he said.

P2. two bricks and a tickey high, only a tickey high and variants: (of a person) very short or young.

ΚΠ

1970 Cape Times 30 May In the days when he was two bricks and a tickey high..a tickey was his reward for every furry digger caught.

1986 Black Ace Dec. 11 He may only be a tickey high to his boss, Solly Mogare's driver, but pint-sized Lungi Bohlela proved a wizard when reading the nap on the greens.

1990 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 1 Dec. 7 (advt.) The fact that Napoleon was only two bricks and a tickey high didn't stop him from getting a foothold in much of the civilized world.

2020 Go! & Express (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 11 June 6 People who know Naomi, then a pony-tailed little red-head, know she is a fiery two bricks and a tickey high no-nonsense character.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘cheap, second-rate, or small-scale’. Cf. penny n. Compounds 1a, twopenny adj. 2a.

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1873 Standard & Mail (S. Afr.) 9 Sept. 4 Men and women who are so partial to three-penny bits as the current Sunday coin..‘tickey’ religionists... The great multitude of ordinary men and women one meets in the street are of the ‘tickey’ Christian class.

c1929 S. Black in S. Gray Three Plays (1984) 109 Gwen:..I suppose you're in commercial life? Camelia: Well, I was cashier in a tickey bazaar.

1992 Cue (S. Afr.) 4 July 9 Young men who ably portray in movement and style what it must have been like to attend those tickey shows [of the fifties and sixties].

C2.

tickey box n. †(a) a piggy bank (obsolete rare); (b) (originally) the coin box in a public telephone; (in later use chiefly) a public telephone.A local call made from a public telephone originally cost threepence.

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1923 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 4 Apr. (Homestead Suppl.) 23/2 We have even had to raid the tickey-box to pay our fare into town when a visit to the bank has become imperative!

1963 L. F. Freed Crime in S. Afr. 150 On the Witwatersrand, the raiding of tickey boxes in telephone booths by thieves..costs the Post Office more than £5 500 a year.

1976 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 8 June 3 [She] was apparently allowed to fix the telephones. ‘I just go off in my bakkie on my own looking for all those tickey boxes you can't find.’

1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 11 Forsie..(Spotting the public phone) Come on—there's a tickey box. Go phone.

2013 T. Rosema Kaleidoscope 109 My mother, naturally, refused to use a tickey box. She insisted on having a telephone at home.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	tickey
释义	tickeyn. Brit. /ˈtɪki/, U.S. /ˈtɪki/, South African English /ˈtɪki/ Forms: 1800s– tickey, 1800s– ticky, 1800s ticcy, 1800s tickie, 1900s tikkie, 1900s tiekie. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed.Perhaps immediately < Afrikaans tiekie (1855 in sense 1), although the etymology of this word is unclear: it is possible that it represents a borrowing of the present word, or that both the English and the Afrikaans coin names share a common etymon. Although their relative priority is unclear, early quotation evidence suggests that English tickey and Afrikaans tiekie both ultimately reflect borrowing from a Nguni language. Suggested candidates include Xhosa -ncinci (adjective stem) small, or Zulu icici , Xhosa icici earring (with the initial t- in English and Afrikaans representing the dental click represented by c in the Nguni words). With the first of these possibilities compare the following earlier example, in which tick , alluding to the small silver threepenny piece, is contrasted with inkulu (compare Xhosa enkulu , Zulu enkulu , both ‘large, great’), designating the larger copper penny:1855 R. J. Mullins Diary 13 May in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) at Tickey The Kafirs do not understand the value of anything except 3d. bits...They will take nothing below ‘Tick’, as they call it, whereas some time ago they wanted 1d. for everything because it was ‘inkulu’ (large) money.Perhaps compare also Dutch tikje (colloquial) small amount, small thing, little bit (1847–8; < tik pat, touch (see tick n.³) + -je , diminutive suffix). Coin names in African languages. Words of similar form and sense to the present word are attested in the Nguni languages (compare Zulu itiki , Xhosa itiki , both ‘silver threepenny piece’), although their origin is uncertain: they have often been seen as borrowings of the South African English coin name, although numerous other etymologies have been proposed. For instance, it has been suggested that they may rather be representations in the sound systems of those languages of various words in Dutch and English, including Dutch stukje small coin (1548; < stuk coin, piece, bit (see stock n.¹) + -je , diminutive suffix), ticket n.¹ (with supposed allusion to vouchers worth threepence which were sometimes used to pay workers in the Transvaal in the 19th cent.: see good-for n.), or English regional ticky, recorded from Wiltshire in the late 19th cent. in the expression ticky pig, the smallest piglet in a litter. It is also possible that the present word represents a borrowing from Zulu itiki or Xhosa itiki, although evidence to verify this is lacking. Perhaps compare also Southern Sotho teke tickey (plural diteke tickeys, money). For further discussion of these and other etymological possibilities, see Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) at tickey n.; for discussion of the relationship between this word and Afrikaans tiekie, see also G. J. van Wyk Etimologiewoordeboek van Afrikaans (2003) at tiekie n. South African colloquial. 1. In the pre-decimal currency of South Africa and the preceding British colonies of southern Africa: a small silver threepenny piece. Also (usually in negative contexts): a very small amount of money, a trifling sum (cf. penny n. 3c, cent n.¹ 4). Now chiefly historical. N.E.D. (1912) comments: ‘a1860 Remembered in colloquial use at Cape Town.’The threepenny piece was formerly used to pay for calls from public telephones (see tickey box n. (b) at Compounds 2), and was withdrawn from circulation in 1961 upon decimalization of the South African currency. The term has also sometimes been applied to an equivalent 2½-cent coin which existed for a short time after this date, and later a 2-cent coin. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > African coins Morisk1525 tickey1868 ngwee1966 Kruger rand1967 likuta1967 sengi1967 zaire1967 naira1972 lilangeni1974 birr1976 kwanza1977 loti1979 sente1980 1868 Female Missionary Intelligencer 1 Apr. 64 [South Africa] Some [of my class] came to me with pence, tickies, and sixpences, and before three weeks I had received £1 2s. 1d. 1871 Cape Argus (S. Afr.) 26 Aug. 2 The Fields have not proved themselves worthy of ‘The Golden Dream’, in which so many indulged, but yet they really might do more than descend to the vulgar tickey. 1900 B. Mitford Aletta 57 His life would not be worth a tickey. They would shoot him. 1963 Rand Daily Mail 11 May 1 Thousands of South Africans..are opposed to the Government plan to abolish the traditional ‘tickey’ (2½c). 1990 Weekend Argus (Cape Town) 17 Feb. 16 Gold Burgerpond 1874, rare genuine Sammy Marks gold tickey 1898, gold Kruger Rands. 2020 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 5 Mar. (E1 ed.) 11 The reverse of the much smaller tickey coin depicts a gloved hand holding the retinal cryoprobe..and the denomination 2c. 2. A nickname for: a very small or short person. ΚΠ 1911 L. Cohen Reminisc. of Kimberley 64 As for ‘Tickey’ Erlich, he'd hardly been conceived, much less invented. 1965 S. Dederick Tickey 19 ‘Oh, Rebeccah, is that why I'm called Tickey?’ ‘Dat was the name I give you. I jes' said to Merrem, let's call her Tickey, she's so small.’ 2019 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 6 Oct. 17 A ferocious scrumhalf nicknamed ‘Tickey’ because of his 1.6m height. Phrases P1. on a tickey: in a small area or circle (esp. with reference to the ability of a vehicle to turn or manoeuvre within a small space); accurately; rapidly. Cf. on a sixpence at sixpence n. Additions, on a dime at dime n. Additions. ΚΠ 1960 Afr. Roads & Transport May–June 1 (advt.) ‘Turns on a Tickey’... The Fordson Power Dumper, capable of turning through an angle of 90°, is the modern answer to efficient site clearance in confined areas and economic short-distance haulage. 1971 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) (at cited word) I've learned to turn the wheelchair on a tickey. 1992 J. Van der Horst in Sunday Times (S. Afr.) 23 Aug. (Business Times) 2 This market can turn on a tickey..and the cost of missing the opportunity when the market does rally is much higher. 2016 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 5 Apr. Schultz said the T20 format had changed one of the tenets of bowling. ‘When I was growing up, everything was about landing the ball on a tickey,’ he said. P2. two bricks and a tickey high, only a tickey high and variants: (of a person) very short or young. ΚΠ 1970 Cape Times 30 May In the days when he was two bricks and a tickey high..a tickey was his reward for every furry digger caught. 1986 Black Ace Dec. 11 He may only be a tickey high to his boss, Solly Mogare's driver, but pint-sized Lungi Bohlela proved a wizard when reading the nap on the greens. 1990 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 1 Dec. 7 (advt.) The fact that Napoleon was only two bricks and a tickey high didn't stop him from getting a foothold in much of the civilized world. 2020 Go! & Express (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 11 June 6 People who know Naomi, then a pony-tailed little red-head, know she is a fiery two bricks and a tickey high no-nonsense character. Compounds C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘cheap, second-rate, or small-scale’. Cf. penny n. Compounds 1a, twopenny adj. 2a. ΚΠ 1873 Standard & Mail (S. Afr.) 9 Sept. 4 Men and women who are so partial to three-penny bits as the current Sunday coin..‘tickey’ religionists... The great multitude of ordinary men and women one meets in the street are of the ‘tickey’ Christian class. c1929 S. Black in S. Gray Three Plays (1984) 109 Gwen:..I suppose you're in commercial life? Camelia: Well, I was cashier in a tickey bazaar. 1992 Cue (S. Afr.) 4 July 9 Young men who ably portray in movement and style what it must have been like to attend those tickey shows [of the fifties and sixties]. C2. tickey box n. †(a) a piggy bank (obsolete rare); (b) (originally) the coin box in a public telephone; (in later use chiefly) a public telephone.A local call made from a public telephone originally cost threepence. ΚΠ 1923 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 4 Apr. (Homestead Suppl.) 23/2 We have even had to raid the tickey-box to pay our fare into town when a visit to the bank has become imperative! 1963 L. F. Freed Crime in S. Afr. 150 On the Witwatersrand, the raiding of tickey boxes in telephone booths by thieves..costs the Post Office more than £5 500 a year. 1976 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 8 June 3 [She] was apparently allowed to fix the telephones. ‘I just go off in my bakkie on my own looking for all those tickey boxes you can't find.’ 1985 P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at Palace 11 Forsie..(Spotting the public phone) Come on—there's a tickey box. Go phone. 2013 T. Rosema Kaleidoscope 109 My mother, naturally, refused to use a tickey box. She insisted on having a telephone at home. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1868
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