Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of ticks or other vermin.
- noun Threepence; a threepenny bit. Also
tickey . - noun Same as
tacky .
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- adjective
infested withticks (The tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina.) - noun childish a
tick (particularly, acheck mark ). - interjection onomatopoeia Representing short
pitchless sound at a reasonablevolume .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pete Seeger had a huge success of his own with the song, which ridiculed the harmless citizens of Daly City, California, and gave us the word ticky-tacky.
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Pete Seeger had a huge success of his own with the song, which ridiculed the harmless citizens of Daly City, California, and gave us the word ticky-tacky.
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One way to reduce it would be to encourage refs to be looser with calling the ticky-tack fouls.
Five modest proposals to make the game better. Duane Rollins 2009
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That made it worse as he began to call ticky-tack fouls and pout the whole game.
old sour 2006
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You couldn't try to physical him too much because they were calling ticky-tack fouls.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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"One minute they're letting you play, and the next minute they're calling ticky-tack fouls."
azcentral.com | news 2010
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Dar Re Mi has won five of her 14 starts, finishing in front of the rest of the field six times, but having her number taken down in a Sept. 13 race in Paris on a ruling Gosden characterized as ticky-tack.
unknown title 2009
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If the game is being called ticky-tack ... that's something DeJuan has to do a better job of.
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Thicke, (pronounced "ticky") a sustainable dairy farmer with a Ph. D and former USDA Soil Science Program Leader, is campaigning against a candidate backed by corporate agribusiness for the position as Iowa's next Secretary of Agriculture.
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Thicke, (pronounced "ticky") a sustainable dairy farmer with a Ph. D and former USDA Soil Science Program Leader, is campaigning against a candidate backed by corporate agribusiness for the position as Iowa's next Secretary of Agriculture.
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