tsk tsk
/t(ə)sk t(ə)sk
/exclamation
Used to express disapproval or annoyance: you of all people, Goldie—tsk, tsk...
- He gave me several quotes, none of which I can print here and finished by saying, ‘Some people's children, tsk tsk tsk!’
- I haven't been for about 5 days i think… tsk tsk tsk… i was suppose to have lost 3 kg by now and i think i've actually put back the 2 that i had lost from the other week.
- Every year Gene burns his buffalo grass lawn and every year people will go tsk tsk tsk - he will just ruin the grass.
verb
(tsk-tsk) [no object] Make an exclamation expressing disapproval or annoyance: even Elvis had his detractors who tsk-tsked over his indulgences...
- Teachers have deducted points, drawn red circles and tsk-tsked at their classes.
- Given the controversial nature of flat taxes, you'd expect them to find genuine enemies of the flat tax, but instead they award anonymity to a pair of sources who merely tsk-tsk about the policy.
- Journalism professors raised themselves up on their suede elbow patches to tsk-tsk.
Origin
1940s: imitative.
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