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Meaning of nickety-knock | Babel Free

Interjection CEFR A2

Definitions

A tapping or knocking sound.

Examples

“[…] there keeps soundin' in my ears a nickety-knock like the tappin' on a coffin-lid.”

“Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock, / And his head as he tumbled, went nickety knock, / Like a pebble in Carisbrook well.”

CEFR level

A2

Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

See also

niet night night night nil desperandum nitchevo nix