"click one's tongue" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: clicks one's tongue [present, singular, third-person], clicking one's tongue [participle, present], clicked one's tongue [participle, past], clicked one's tongue [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} click one's tongue (third-person singular simple present clicks one's tongue, present participle clicking one's tongue, simple past and past participle clicked one's tongue)
  1. To make a clicking noise with a sucking action of the tongue, to express disapproval or impatience, urge on a horse, etc. Synonyms: cluck one's tongue
    Sense id: en-click_one's_tongue-en-verb-1bMJlIms Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 14”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
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