tsktsk

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of tsk tsk.

present singular third person tsktsks · participle present tsktsking · participle past tsktsked · past tsktsked

1. intransitiverareTo make a tsktsk sound of disapproval.

   "You're not supposed to talk," the guy at the desk tsktsked at us.

   1970, Clarence L. Cooper, The farm

   4 more examples

   Tone takes Davis to his Connecticut home where housekeeper Skipworth tsktsks as Davis gets demanding and asks for booze.

   1985, Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross, The motion picture guide

   Adam tsktsked at her. “You are such a snob, Lex. What would you say if I told you we were going swimming at a country club?”

   2009, Erin Downing, Drive Me Crazy

   Instant fireworks. On cue, the usual suspects — The New York Times, the Washington Post and various other newspapers large and small went orbital. Pundits and odd and assorted talking heads and radio voices all got the vapors and tsk-tsk-tsked and cluck-clucked themselves into a froth.

   2016 December 4, Paul Jenkins, “Flag-burning is ugly – but still protected speech”, in Anchorage Daily News

   Specifically, 40 percent of Gen Z and millennials determine the success of their vacation by social media reaction to their photos. Before you start wagging a finger and tsk-tsk-ing about millennials, the study also found that Gen X and boomers aren’t far behind them.

   2022 November 16, Christopher Muther, “Social media is ruining our vacations”, in The Boston Globe