ticked

[ tikt ]

/ tɪkt /

adjective Slang.

angry; miffed.

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Origin of ticked

First recorded in 1935–40; tick¹ + -ed²

tick

[ tik ]

/ tɪk /

noun

a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.

Chiefly British Informal. a moment or instant.

a small dot, mark, check, or electronic signal, as used to mark off an item on a list, serve as a reminder, or call attention to something.

Stock Exchange.

a movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option.
the smallest possible tick on a given exchange.

Manège. a jumping fault consisting of a light touch of a fence with one or more feet.

a small contrasting spot of color on the coat of a mammal or the feathers of a bird.

verb (used without object)

to emit or produce a tick, like that of a clock.

to pass as with ticks of a clock: The hours ticked by.

verb (used with object)

to sound or announce by a tick or ticks: The clock ticked the minutes.

to mark with a tick or ticks; check (usually followed by off); to tick off the items on the memo.

Verb Phrases

tick off, Slang.

to make angry: His mistreatment of the animals really ticked me off.
Chiefly British.to scold severely: The manager will tick you off if you make another mistake.

Origin of tick

1400–50; late Middle English tek little touch; akin to Dutch tik a touch, pat, Norwegian tikka to touch or shove slightly. See tickle

Can be confusedtic tick

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Examples from the Web for ticked

The CIA ticked up its support for some armed rebel groups later that summer.
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Further, while Obama's poll numbers have ticked up recently, they are still underwater.
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Ryan said, as he ticked off the positive elements from his perspective.
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The unemployment rate, which is compiled from the separate household survey, ticked down to 7.3 percent from 7.4 percent.
Today’s Unemployment Report Is an S.O.S. to the Fed|Daniel Gross|September 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST

In recent years rates of substance abuse and suicide among veterans have also ticked steadily upward.
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The command had gone forth that no man should place a stake till the last second of the day had ticked itself into the past.
The God of His Fathers|Jack London
Father Gerard, indeed, says that in the original of the so-called draft five paragraphs were ‘ticked off for omission.’
What Gunpowder Plot Was|Samuel Rawson Gardiner
The question that had ticked in Mr. Trimm's head was answered at last—in the sight of these steel things with their notched jaws.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm|Irvin S. Cobb
The place buzzed like a beehive and ticked like a clockmaker's.
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A little insect behind the wall-paper against which he leaned his disconsolate head ticked and ticked like a watch.
Despair's Last Journey|David Christie Murray

British Dictionary definitions for ticked

tick

/ (tɪk) /

noun

a recurrent metallic tapping or clicking sound, such as that made by a clock or watch

British informal a moment or instant

a mark (✓) or dash used to check off or indicate the correctness of something

commerce the smallest increment of a price fluctuation in a commodity exchange. Tick size is usually 0.01% of the nominal value of the trading unit

verb

to produce a recurrent tapping sound or indicate by such a soundthe clock ticked the minutes away

(when tr, often foll by off) to mark or check (something, such as a list) with a tick

what makes someone tick informal the basic drive or motivation of a person

Word Origin for tick

C13: from Low German tikk touch; related to Old High German zekōn to pluck, Norwegian tikke to touch

tick

/ (tɪk) /

noun

any of various small parasitic arachnids of the families Ixodidae (hard ticks) and Argasidae (soft ticks), typically living on the skin of warm-blooded animals and feeding on the blood and tissues of their hosts: order Acarina (mites and ticks)See also sheep tick (def. 1) Related adjective: acaroid

any of certain other arachnids of the order Acarina

any of certain insects of the dipterous family Hippoboscidae that are ectoparasitic on horses, cattle, sheep, etc, esp the sheep ked

Word Origin for tick

Old English ticca; related to Middle High German zeche tick, Middle Irish dega stag beetle

tick

/ (tɪk) /

noun

British informal account or credit (esp in the phrase on tick)

Word Origin for tick

C17: shortened from ticket

tick

⁴

/ (tɪk) /

noun

the strong covering of a pillow, mattress, etc

informal short for ticking

Word Origin for tick

C15: probably from Middle Dutch tīke; related to Old High German ziecha pillow cover, Latin tēca case, Greek thēkē

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Word Origin and History for ticked

tick

n.1

parasitic blood-sucking arachnid animal, Old English ticia, from West Germanic *tik- (cf. Middle Dutch teke, Dutch teek, Old High German zecho, German Zecke "tick"), of unknown origin. French tique (mid-15c.), Italian zecca are Germanic loan-words.

tick

n.2

mid-15c., "light touch or tap," probably from tick (v.) and cognate with Dutch tik, Middle High German zic, and perhaps echoic. Meaning "sound made by a clock" is probably first recorded 1540s; tick-tock is recorded from 1848.

tick

n.3

"credit," 1640s, shortening of ticket (n.).

tick

early 13c., "to touch or pat," perhaps from an Old English verb corresponding to tick (n.2), and perhaps ultimately echoic. Cf. Old High German zeckon "to pluck," Dutch tikken "to pat," Norwegian tikke "touch lightly." Related: Ticked; ticking.

To tick (someone) off is from 1915, originally "to reprimand, scold." The verbal phrase tick off was in use in several senses at the time: as what a telegraph instrument does when it types out a message (1873), as what a clock does in marking the passage of time (1846), to enumerate on one's fingers (1899), and in accountancy, etc., "make a mark beside an item on a sheet with a pencil, etc.," often indicating a sale (by 1881). This might be the direct source of the phrase, perhaps via World War I military bureaucratic sense of being marked off from a list as "dismissed" or "ineligible." Meaning "to annoy" is recorded from 1975.

Medicine definitions for ticked

tick

[ tĭk ]

n.

Any of numerous small bloodsucking parasitic arachnids of the families Ixodidae and Argasidae, many of which transmit febrile diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease.

Any of various usually wingless, louselike insects of the family Hippobosciddae that are parasitic on sheep, goats, and other animals.

Science definitions for ticked

tick

[ tĭk ]

Any of numerous small, parasitic arachnids of the suborder Ixodida that feed on the blood of animals. Like their close relatives the mites and unlike spiders, ticks have no division between cephalothorax and abdomen. Ticks differ from mites by being generally larger and having a sensory pit at the end of their first pair of legs. Many ticks transmit febrile diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease.

Idioms and Phrases with ticked

tick

In addition to the idiom beginning with tick

tickled pink
tickle one's fancy
tickle the ivories
tick off

also see:

clock is ticking
tight as a tick
what makes one tick

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