nickety-knock
English
[edit]Interjection
[edit]nickety-knock
- A tapping or knocking sound.
- 1880, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar (volume 60, page 148)
- […] there keeps soundin' in my ears a nickety-knock like the tappin' on a coffin-lid.
- 2022, Graeme Stones, Parodies of the Romantic Age, page 88:
- Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock, / And his head as he tumbled, went nickety knock, / Like a pebble in Carisbrook well.
- 1880, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar (volume 60, page 148)