单词 | crick-crack |
释义 | crick-crackn.int.adv. A. n. A repeated sharp cracking sound.In quot. 1600 perhaps = cracker n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [noun] > crack or snap crackingc1290 cracka1400 crickling1584 crick-crack1600 snap1611 snapping1812 crickle1914 1600 Maydes Metamorphosis ii. sig. C3v They come of crick-cracks, and shake their tayles like a squib. ?1787 Artist's Repository & Drawing Mag. 2 17 The crick crack of his knotted whip. 1860 D. M. M. Craik Our Year 163 Those creatures, who walk upright, and Make crick-cracks as they go. 1930 J. H. Preston Gentleman Rebel xii.138 There is a terrific crick-crack of rifles, but they are firing too high. 2002 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 26 June f7 Now and then there was the crick-crack of some creature walking in the bush. B. int. Representing a repeated sharp cracking sound. ΚΠ 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Crispans Crepitus crispans, a sowne or noyse goying by stoppes: as, cricke, cracke, crocke: ticke, tacke, etc.] 1770 I. Bickerstaff 'Tis Well it's no Worse i. i. 14 I followed—crick, crack—whip and spur, through thick and thin. 1846 C. Dickens in Daily News 21 Jan. 6/6 Bump, jolt, crack, bump, crick-crack; round the corner, up the narrow street, down the paved hill on the other side. 1962 R. Ruark Uhuru ii. 146 That steel nozzle just under the left ear and crick-crack—finish. 2000 L. Levi Journey as Wire Bend 3 ‘Monkey break he back,’ said Percy. ‘Crick-Crack. Crick-Crack.’ C. adv. With a sharp, cracking sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [adverb] > crack or snap snap1583 crack1767 crick-crack1835 1835 Dublin Univ. Mag. Mar. 268/2 Then, his whip, like a long whipping- top lash, which goes crick-crack perpetually round the faded blue, copper-laced jacket. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. viii. 166 Her dress caught in a twig, and crick-crack went ‘the abominable thing’. 1994 I. Khan in S. Brown & J. Wickham Oxf. Bk. Caribbean Short Stories (1999) 112 The cart going crick-crack, the donkey going clip-clop clip-clop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crick-crackv. Now rare. intransitive. To emit a repeated sharp cracking sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > crackle brastlec1000 rashetOE spranklea1387 sprinklea1398 graislea1522 crash1563 crackle?1570 crick-crackle1608 decrepitate1677 crump1789 happer1825 crumple1837 crickle1849 crick-crack1850 crepitate1853 1850 Amer. Whig Rev. Feb. 167/1 We..ere now crick-cracking along in the crazy old cabriolet. 1856 S. T. Dobell Eng. in Time of War 16 Hear his pistol cric-crac! hear his rifle ping-pang! 1870 Belfast News-let. 31 May They then visited my hands, and made every finger and knuckle joint crick-crack. 2005 V. L. Thompson Nerd gone Wild (2006) iv. 45 Between Clyde's metal taps crick-cracking on the bar and the blare of the jukebox,no one would hear her if she kept the conversation low. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.int.adv.1600v.1850 |
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