Etymology

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Today it means: To be in oestrus; to copulate. Full definition →

Old French cliquet
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  1. Old French · derived fromcliquet“the latch of a door”
  2. English todayclicket

From Old French cliquet (“the latch of a door”). See click.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.