ticktack

See also: tick tack

English

Interjection

ticktack

  1. Dated form of tick tock.
    • 1852, Northern Mythology: Volume 3 (page 206)
      A wild young fellow coming home late one night, heard, while he was putting the key into the lock, something on the ground that continually went ticktack, ticktack, ticktack. Stooping down he found it was a silver watch […]
    • 1901, George Brown, The House With the Green Shutters
      Damn the thing, why didn't it stop – with its monotonous ticktack; ticktack; ticktack – he could feel it inside his head where it seemed to strike innumerable little blows, on a strained chord it was bent on snapping.

Noun

ticktack (plural ticktacks)

  1. A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
  2. A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs; tricktrack.
    • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes‎, Part XXVI, Upon the Armies surprisall of the King at Holmeby:
      And that those pretended Tumults were chastiz'd by thir own Army for new Tumults, is not prov'd by a Game at Tictack with words

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ticktack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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