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单词 tsk
释义

tskint.

Inflections: Also tsck, (and reduplicated) tsk-tsk.
Etymology: Alveolar click formed by suction: compare tchick n., tck int.
A sound expressing commiseration; an exclamation of disapproval or irritation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > expressions of disapproval [interjection]
fie1297
avoyc1300
spyc1315
comec1450
tuta1529
oh1533
hum1598
rufty-tufty1606
aroint thee!1608
hoot1681
boo1778
hoots1824
boo hoo1825
now, now1847
aw1852
tch1898
tsk1947
the mind > emotion > compassion > expression of pity [interjection] > expression of commiseration
hard luck1726
bad luck1902
po po po1936
tsk1947
1947 K. L. Pike Phonemics ii. 41/1 Do you get..a sound resembling the noise of commiseration which is sometimes written in literature as ‘tsk-tsk’, or ‘tut-tut’?
1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer xvii. 277 ‘When she doesn't like a writer or a composer, it sort of dampens my..activity about him. I'm henpecked.’ ‘Tsk, tsk,’ said Ed extra clearly.
1958 L. Durrell Mountolive xvi. 307 Balthazar..walked slowly..making the little clucking noise he always made with his tongue..Tsck, tsck.
1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiv. 273 ‘Poor Carolyn Hastings is officially engaged to that dreadful Cowie boy.’ ‘Tsk.’
1983 M. Gee Sole Survivor iv. 32 The constable went tsk, tsk and looked at us sadly. There was nothing he could do so he sent us home.

Derivatives

tsk-tsk v. (intransitive) to make this sound or utter this exclamation; also transitive, to say disapprovingly.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity or compassion [verb (intransitive)] > express by specific sound
tsk-tsk1966
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove [verb (intransitive)] > express disapproval by sound or exclamation
hoota1225
hissa1425
hem and hawk1588
catcall1735
cluck1821
tut1832
fie-fie1836
boo1855
harrumph1936
tsk-tsk1966
steups1967
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove of [verb (transitive)] > express disapproval of > by sound or exclamation
hootc1175
to clap out1550
explose?c1550
explode1563
hiss1598
exsibilate1601
to hum up, down1642
out-hiss1647
chuckle1681
catcall1700
scrape1773
groan1799
to get the (big) bird1825
boo1833
fie-fie1836
goose1838
sibilate1864
cluck1916
bird1927
slow handclap1949
tsk-tsk1966
tut1972
1966 M. Avallone Fat Death 47 ‘Mr. Noon,’ he tsk-tsked reprovingly. ‘You really pretend not to know?’
1968 Punch 20 Mar. 428/3 No amount of tsk-tsking indignation and bitter wit will turn a buy into a bargain.
1976 New Yorker 26 Apr. 102/2 She tsk-tsks over Momma.

Draft additions 1993

Also attributively and as n., (consisting of or resembling) an utterance of this sound.
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1980 S. Trott When your Lover Leaves xi. 35 She was the only woman I knew that made that old-fashioned tsk-tsk sound.
1988 A. Lurie Truth about Lorin Jones iii. 42 Jacky made a tsk sound.
1988 Toronto Sun 13 Apr. 152/1 Nobody puts as much outrage into a few pithy ‘tsk, tsks’..as this duo.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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