Tchick

/ǁ/ · interjection

Meaning

A click sound such as a palatal, lateral, or dental click..

Definitions by Sense

1. A click sound such as a palatal, lateral, or dental click.
2. Used to represent similar animal or other natural sounds
3. A clicking sound, such as a palatal or dental click.
4. (intransitive) to make a tchick sound.

Example Sentences

The clumsy Herr was trying in vain to strike a light with a flint. Tchick! Tchick! but no spark appeared.

Their shrill tchick, tchick, tchick, had done the damage, warning of our approach.

They also fly with head sunk in 'shoulders', tail slightly raised and wings quivering, calling 'tchick tchick'.

The doctor cut here, then he cut here, and pulled the skin back like this—piitchhuu—then folded it— tchick—like this, and tucked it under—tchick—like that, and pulled this piece over—tchick—like this, and sewed it across here—tchick, tchick, tchick.

From the day that I've been lying here and can no longer move around in a wheelchair, I've been hearing the door of the sideboard open. Tchick, open, tchick, closed.

So saying, and summing up the whole with a provoking wink, and such an interjectional tchick as may quicken a dull horse with , Petit-André drew oil" to the other side of the path, and left the youth to digest the taunts he had treated him with, as his proud Scotch stomach best might.

The sound is created by sucking on the molars in the back of the mouth to create a sound (tchick) somewhat like that used in English to […]

The almost inaudible tchick of the panic button, the beep of the toxin test kit accompanied by green light indicating that he was not poisoned and click, screech and the clicktic of the front entrance.

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• tchicks
• tchicking
• tchicked

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