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CLICKET

Definition: CLICKET

CLICKET

Noun

1. A latch key.

2. The knocker of a door.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CLICKET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

"CLICKET" is a common misspelling or typo for: Clacked, Clicked, Clicker, Clucked, Cricket.


Specialty Definitions: CLICKET

DomainDefinitions

Slang in 1811

CLICKET. Copulation of foxes; and thence used, in a canting sense, for that of men and women: as, The cull and the mort are at clicket in the dyke; the man and woman are copulating in the ditch. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CLICKET

Etymologies containing "CLICKET": Klicket. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CLICKET

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

clicket

5

clicket community

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CLICKET

Language Translations for "CLICKET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Welsh

  

clicied (trigger). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CLICKET"

Words rhyming with "CLICKET" (pronounced 'Click"et'): Acquiet, Anet, Armet, Becket, Blushet, Brocket, Budget, Bushet, Cachet, Chewet, Chuet, Claret, Comet, Crevet, Crewet, Crocket, Crownet, Cruet, Crumpet, Flacket, Flasket, freshet, grivet, HATCHET, Latchet, Levet, locket, Malet, midget, Miscovet, Moonet, Nidget, Nymphet, Owlet, Piet, Placket, Planchet, Planet, Plashet, Pledget, Poet, Poket, Popet, Porket, Pricket, Privet, Prophet, Puet, Purset, Pyet. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CLICKET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-k-l-t"

-1 letter: tickle.

-2 letters: click, telic.

-3 letters: ceil, celt, cite, clit, etic, kilt, kite, lice, lick, like, lite, tick, tike, tile.

-4 letters: cel, elk, ice, ick, ilk, kit, lei, lek, let, lie, lit, tel, tic, tie, til.

-5 letters: el, et, it, li, ti.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-k-l-t"
 

+2 letters: checklist, cockatiel.

 

+3 letters: checklists, cockatiels, cocktailed, crackliest, leukocytic.

 

+4 letters: candlestick, stickleback.

 

+5 letters: candlesticks, lockstitched, lockstitches, sticklebacks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CLICKET


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4C 49 43 4B 45 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-..    ..    -.-.    -.-    .    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001100 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#76 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004C 0049 0043 004B 0045 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37464337453954

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Non-English Dictionaries with "CLICKET"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Welsh

geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiadCymreig

English

Dictionary, Definition, TranslationSaesneg
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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