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clickity

clickity interjection: nonce variation of the word click, usually indicating one of a series of clicking sounds.

Interjection

  1. Nonce variation of the word click, usually indicating one of a series of clicking sounds.
    • Her stick made a little clickety noise on the flagstones.1911, Marguerite Audoux, Marie-Claire, page 51
    • As so many times before one finds a cozy corner in a coach, props oneself on an elbow and gazes out the window as the scenery goes speeding by to the cadence of clickity, clickity, clickity, click as the wheels strike the spaces between the rails with increasing speed.1984, Charles Sauriol, Tales of the Don, page 61

Examples of clickity in a sentence

  • The SWOOPER started to move faster and faster and soon they were swooping along a dark tunnel, clickity, clickity, clickity-clack.2003, Tom Condon, The Sandman: Stories to Read to Children, page 5:
  • When I was about halfway through the hatch, the engine went “clickity, clickity, clickity, and boom,” igniting the gasoline vapors in the compartment into a huge fireball.2009, Alton McVey, Dancing with the Bear, page 198:
  • Instead of a raft floating down the Mississip,' it'll be a clickity clack across the desert.2010, Jerome Peterson, Thumb Flagging, page 162:

Forms of clickity

alternative formclickety

Origin of clickity

From click + -ity.

Questions about clickity

What does clickity mean?
Clickity means nonce variation of the word click, usually indicating one of a series of clicking sounds.
How do you use clickity in a sentence?
The SWOOPER started to move faster and faster and soon they were swooping along a dark tunnel, clickity, clickity, clickity-clack.
What part of speech is clickity?
Clickity is an interjection.

Words near clickity in the dictionary

  1. clicking knives
  2. clicking off
  3. clicking one's tongue
  4. clicking through
  5. clickings
  6. clickity
  7. clickjack
  8. clickjacking
  9. clickless
  10. Clickner
  11. Clickners

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