nickety-knock en · INTJ
Meanings
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A tapping or knocking sound.
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:[…] 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: