nickety-knock

interjection

A tapping or knocking sound.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. A tapping or knocking sound.

    […] 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
    1 more example

    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
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APA

nickety-knock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nickety-knock

MLA

“nickety-knock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nickety-knock. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nickety-knock,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nickety-knock.

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