clicket

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verb

To be in oestrus; to copulate.

“The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.”

OriginOld French cliquet →
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Meanings

clicket1

verbclicket (third-person singular simple present clickets, present participle clicketing, simple past and past participle clicketed)

present singular third person clickets · participle present clicketing · participle past clicketed · past clicketed

  1. intransitiveTo be in oestrus; to copulate.

    The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.

    2 more examples

    A Fox goeth to Clickitting.

    1677, Cox, Nicholas, The Gentleman's Recreation […]

    Soon after the New Year vixens start miauling, and the curious proceeding known as clicketting soon follows.

    1951, Douglas Francis St. Leger-Gordon, The way of a fox.

clicket2

nounclicket (plural clickets)

plural clickets

  1. UKdialectalThe knocker of a door.
  2. UKdialectalA latchkey.

Origin

  1. Old Frenchcliquet“the latch of a door”
  2. Englishclicket

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

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APA

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MLA

“clicket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clicket. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clicket,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clicket.

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