knock-knock

See also: knock knock

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

knock-knock

1. A verbal emulation of a knocking sound.

Derived terms

• knock-knock burglary
• knock-knock joke

Translations

verbal knocking sound

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磕磕 (zh) (kēke, kàikài)

• Dutch: klop klop
• Finnish: kop kop
• French: toc-toc (fr)
• German: klopf klopf
• Hebrew: טוק טוק (tuk tuk)
• Indonesian: woi woi
• Italian: toc toc
• Japanese: ノックノック (nokkunokku)
• Korean: 똑똑 (ko) (ttokttok), 노크노크 (nokeunokeu)
• Polish: puk-puk (pl)
• Russian: тук-ту́к (tuk-túk)
• Spanish: toc-toc
• Swedish: knack knack (sv)
• Tagalog: tok-tok
• Turkish: tak tak (tr)
• Vietnamese: gõ gõ