Meaning of ticktock | Babel Free
Examples
“The son bent bushy eyebrows in an icy glance⟳; Old Cornelius looked away — at the floor, into the fire, up at the clock ticktocking on the mantel, the clock which was Phebe Hand’s reserve⟳ magazine in the family’s ceaseless battle with want⟳; most of the money stowed behind the swaying pendulum now came from Corneel.”
“As the clock ticktocks away the last⟳ few hours and minutes of the year, we look⟳ toward a new year filled with hopes of better things to come⟳.”
“A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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