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Meaning of nickety-knock | Babel Free

Interjection CEFR C2

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

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

niet night night night nil desperandum nitchevo nix

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