nickety-knock in English

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          "ref": "1880, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar (volume 60, page 148)",
          "text": "[…] there keeps soundin' in my ears a nickety-knock like the tappin' on a coffin-lid."
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        {
          "ref": "2022, Graeme Stones, Parodies of the Romantic Age, page 88:",
          "text": "Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock, / And his head as he tumbled, went nickety knock, / Like a pebble in Carisbrook well.",
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        {
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          "text": "[…] there keeps soundin' in my ears a nickety-knock like the tappin' on a coffin-lid."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Graeme Stones, Parodies of the Romantic Age, page 88:",
          "text": "Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock, / And his head as he tumbled, went nickety knock, / Like a pebble in Carisbrook well.",
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        "A tapping or knocking sound."
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  "word": "nickety-knock"
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"nickety-knock" meaning in English

Interjection