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Clicket vs Blicket - What's the difference?

clicket | blicket |

As nouns the difference between clicket and blicket

is that clicket is (uk|dialect) the knocker of a door while blicket is (philosophy) an object with certain properties causing it to trigger a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music), introduced in certain experiments relating to causality and perception.

As a verb clicket

is (of a fox or foxes) to be in oestrus; to copulate.

clicket

English

Etymology 1

Verb

  • (of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate.
    • The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) cliquet the latch of a door. See (click).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) The knocker of a door.
  • (UK, dialect) A latchkey.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913) • c. 1400. Geoffrey Chaucer. 'The Canterbury Tales'. The Merchant's Tale. He carried always the small silver clicket With which, as pleased him, he'd unlock the gate.

    blicket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) An object with certain properties causing it to trigger a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music), introduced in certain experiments relating to causality and perception.
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