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Tchick

//ǁ// intj, noun, verb

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    A click sound such as a palatal, lateral, or dental click.; 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."

  2. 2
    A click sound such as a palatal, lateral, or dental click.; used to express disapproval or disappointment

    "Tchick! Tchick! Now I call that an awful pity Katie."

  3. 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."

Noun
  1. 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."

Verb
  1. 1
    to make a tchick sound. intransitive

    "And the glass of water they've left for me Shall 'tchick!' to tell them I'm drinking!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Imitative.

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Etymology 3

Imitative.

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