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pocketa-pocketa|ˈpɒkɪtəˈpɒkɪtə|
Also pockety.
[Echoic.]
An imitation of the regular sound made by a smoothly-running internal combustion engine; also transf. Also attrib. and adv.
1939J. Thurber in New Yorker 18 Mar. 19/1 The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. 1968L. Deighton Only when I Larf i. 11 A helicopter was warming up... Pockety, pockety, pockety. 1971Flying Apr. 93/1, I brought the power back from the standard 1,700 run-up rpm to a pocketa-pocketa idle. 1977J. Aiken Last Movement ix. 174, I could hear his heart going pocketa-pocketa. |