tchick

Interjection

1. used to urge on a horse or other animal.
   • The driver mounted his box, put his long whip into a hole in the box, and, buttoning his coat, called, " Tchick, tchick, tchick." Away the horses set off, and went so willingly and briskly, till he saw a passenger waiting to get into the coach.1855, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, Harriet L. Brown, Anne Wales Abbot, Child's Friend and Family Magazine, page 140
   • "Weel! weel!" ejaculated the carter, "that comes o' your education ; G — d be thank'd, I never could write ; get on Bess, tchick, tchick," and giving the horse a lusty thwack, he made off as fast as possible.1861, John Heiton, The castes of Edinburgh, page 337
2. used to express disapproval or disappointment
   • Tchick! Tchick! Now I call that an awful pity Katie.1884, Margaret Oliphant, The Wizard's Son, page 241
   • Mr. Blantox. And she asked permission of the court for your boy to make a will and disinherit you? Mrs. Berg. Tchick-tchick-tchick.1926, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Charges of Impeachment Against Frederick A. Fenning
3. Used to represent similar animal or other natural sounds
   • The clumsy Herr was trying in vain to strike a light with a flint. Tchick! Tchick! but no spark appeared.1869, Helen Fitch Parker, Constance Aylmer., page 89
   • Their shrill tchick, tchick, tchick, had done the damage, warning of our approach.1964, Frank Cummings Hibben, Hunting in Africa, page 65

Noun

tchick (plural tchicks)

1. A clicking sound, such as a palatal or dental click.
   • So saying, and summing up the whole with a provoking wink, and such an interjectional tchick as may quicken a dull horse with , Petit-André drew oil" to the other side of the path, and left the youth to digest the taunts he had treated him with, as his proud Scotch stomach best might.1823, Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward
   • The sound is created by sucking on the molars in the back of the mouth to create a sound (tchick) somewhat like that used in English to […]2011, Stanley J. Kays, Cultivated vegetables of the world: a multilingual onomasticon

Verb

tchick (third-person singular simple present tchicks, present participle tchicking, simple past and past participle tchicked)

1. (intransitive) to make a tchick sound.
   • And the glass of water they've left for me Shall 'tchick!' to tell them I'm drinking!1857, Thomas Buchanan Read, The Female Poets of America
   • But Aunt Janey was tchicking rebukefully, with her hand out. "Nay, for shame," she said.1935, Ursula Wyllie Roberts, Blind Men Crossing a Bridge, page 307