Tock vs Ock - What's the difference?
tock | ock |
(used in conjunction with tick) A clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.
To produce such a sound.
* Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann
* 1967 , William Gray Purcell, St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin
As a noun tock
is a clicking sound similar to one made by the hands of a clock.As a verb tock
is to produce such a sound.As an interjection ock is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.tock
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* tick-tockVerb
(en verb)- The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.
- The old clock tocked with a wooden "cluck," and like as not a squirrel would be hopping across the oilcloth table or scrambling along the loose bark of the log wall in search of a stray gingersnap.