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clicket
English
Etymology 1
Verb
clicket (third-person singular simple present clickets, present participle (UK) clicketting or (US) clicketing, simple past and past participle (UK) clicketted or (US) clicketed)
- (intransitive, of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate.
- The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.
Etymology 2
Old French cliquet (“the latch of a door”). See click.
Noun
clicket (plural clickets)
- (Britain, dialect) The knocker of a door.
- (Britain, dialect) A latchkey.
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Merchant's Tale (modern translation)
- He carried always the small silver clicket
With which, as pleased him, he'd unlock the gate.
- He carried always the small silver clicket
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Merchant's Tale (modern translation)
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clickety
English
Alternative forms
- clickity
Etymology
Imitative, from click.
Interjection
clickety
- A clicking sound suggesting mechanical motion.
See also
- bumpety
- clackety
- clackity
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