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Latchkey vs Clicket - What's the difference?

latchkey | clicket |

As nouns the difference between latchkey and clicket

is that latchkey is a key, especially to an outside door while clicket is the knocker of a door.

As an adjective latchkey

is equipped with a key; generally in the phrase latchkey child.

As a verb clicket is

to be in oestrus; to copulate.

latchkey

English

Alternative forms

* latch key * latch-key

Noun

(en noun)
  • A key, especially to an outside door.
  • A child who is given a key to the home and is expected to remain at home alone (without adult supervision until the parents return from work).

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Equipped with a key; generally in the phrase latchkey child .

    • 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.