nickety-knock

English

Interjection

nickety-knock

  1. A tapping or knocking sound.
    • 1880, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 60, page 148:
      […] there keeps soundin' in my ears a nickety-knock like the tappin' on a coffin-lid.
    • 2022, Graeme Stones, Parodies of the Romantic Age, page 88:
      Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock, / And his head as he tumbled, went nickety knock, / Like a pebble in Carisbrook well.
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