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Definition of Ticky
1. Adjective. infested with ticks (The tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina.) ¹
2. Noun. (childish) a tick (particularly, a check mark). ¹
3. Interjection. (onomatopoeia also tick) Representing short pitchless sound at a reasonable volume. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ticky
1. tickey [n TICKIES] - See also: tickey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ticky
Literary usage of Ticky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forty-four French Folk-songs and Variants from Canada, Normandy, and Brittany by Julien Tiersot (1910)
"ticky tick-tack, ticky tacky. I hear the mill go ticky ticky tacky, ... ticky ticky
tacky, ticky ticky tacky, ticky ticky tacky, ticky tack! и Built was the ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
""BACK TO THE ARMY AGAIN" I'M 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at,
A-layin' on to the sergeant I don't know a gun from a bat; My shirt's doin' ..."
3. The Worker and His Work: Readings in Present Day Literature Presenting Some by Stella Stewart Center (1920)
"ticky-ticky-ticky-tick," interrupted the ticker. In some inexplicable way it
seemed to him that the brassy sound had an ominous ring, so he added: " But you ..."
4. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1908)
"You wind 'em up, just in the back, With cracky, cracky, cracky, crack— And all
the wheels, revolving quick, Go ticky, ticky, ticky, tick. ..."
5. A Selection of Cases on Agency by Eugene Wambaugh (1896)
"Dutilh, ticky, & Co. in Trieste, of your 1499 bags of coffee. It b understood
that the above parcel will be shipped on joint ..."
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