clicket

American  

[klik-uht] / ˈklɪk ət /

noun

clickets plural

1. Dialect. (in some parts of England) a latch or catch for fastening something, or a key for such a latch.

2. Dialect. (in some parts of England) the act of copulating or mating; sexual intercourse, especially in the phrase at clicket.

3. Dialect. a click; clicking sound.

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verb (used without object)

clicketed, clicketing

1. Dialect. to click; make a clicking sound, especially repeatedly.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• clickety
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• clickets
  plural

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

clicket clicketing

She will "clicket" off the "blob" with her finger.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

In the E.-Anglian dialect, clicket is "to chatter."

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

And when they have eaten, the monk smiteth eftsoons on the garden gate with the clicket, and then anon all the beasts return again to their places that they come from. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

This parallel makes it clear that Fr. crécerelle, kestrel, is a metaphorical application of the same word, meaning a leper's "clicket."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

It would not shriek, but it might clicket.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

Then I hear more clicketing, and it is Mr. Wilcox practising, and then, 'a-tissue, a-tissue': he has to stop too.

From Howards End by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)