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Clicket vs Clickety - What's the difference?

clicket | clickety |

As a verb clicket

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

As a noun clicket

is (uk|dialect) the knocker of a door.

As an interjection clickety is

a clicking sound suggesting mechanical motion.

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.

    clickety

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A clicking sound suggesting mechanical motion.

    • See also

    * clackety