different between copulate vs clicket

English

Etymology

Latin copulare (“to couple”) perfect participle, from stem copulat-.

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?p.j?.le?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.pj?.le?t/
  • Rhymes: -?pj?le?t
• (adjective)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?p.j?.l?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.pj?.l?t/

Verb

copulate (third-person singular simple present copulates, present participle copulating, simple past and past participle copulated)

1. (somewhat formal) To engage in sexual intercourse.

Synonyms

• fuck, have sex, make love, screw, swive, bang, sleep together, boff
• See also Thesaurus:copulate

Related terms

• copulin
• copulation
• copulator
• copulatee
• copulable
• copulability

Translations

Adjective

copulate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Custom and Education

     the force of custome copulate, and conioyn'd

2. (grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

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Anagrams

• outplace

Italian

Verb

copulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of copulare
2. second-person plural imperative of copulare
3. feminine plural of copulato

Anagrams

• peculato

Latin

Verb

c?pul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?pul?

References

• copulate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• copulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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)

1. (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)

1. (Britain, dialect) The knocker of a door.
2. (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.