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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tic /tɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Pathologya sudden, painless, involuntary muscular movement, as of the face:His tic grew worse as he got more and more nervous.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tic (tik),USA pronunciation n. - Pathology
- a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
- See tic douloureux.
- a persistent or recurrent behavioral trait;
personal quirk:her distinctive verbal tics.
- French (of expressive origin, originally)
- 1790–1800
- a suffix, equivalent in meaning to -ic, occurring in adjectives of Greek origin (analytic), used esp. in the formation of adjectives from nouns with stems in -sis: hematotic;
neurotic.
- Greek -tikos, extracted from adjs. derived with -ikos -ic from agent nouns ending in -tēs; compare hieratic
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: tic /tɪk/ n - spasmodic twitching of a particular group of muscles
Etymology: 19th Century: from French, of uncertain origin; compare Italian ticche |