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nickety-knock

nickety-knock interjection: a tapping or knocking sound.

Interjection

  1. A tapping or knocking sound.
    • […] there keeps soundin' in my ears a nickety-knock like the tappin' on a coffin-lid.1880, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 60, page 148
    • Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock, / And his head as he tumbled, went nickety knock, / Like a pebble in Carisbrook well.2022, Graeme Stones, Parodies of the Romantic Age, page 88

Questions about nickety-knock

What does nickety-knock mean?
Nickety-knock means a tapping or knocking sound.
What part of speech is nickety-knock?
Nickety-knock is an interjection.

Words near nickety-knock in the dictionary

  1. nickernuts
  2. nickerpecker
  3. nickerpeckers
  4. nickers
  5. Nickerson
  6. nickety-knock
  7. Nickey
  8. Nickeys
  9. Nicki
  10. Nicki MAGAj
  11. Nickie

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