Tocktact (Noun)
Meaning
Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The sound of the old grandfather clock echoed through the hallway with a steady tocktact.
- She sat in the silent room listening to the tocktact of her watch on her wrist.
- In the darkness the tocktact of the wall clock kept time.
- Her anxiety heightened with every tocktact of the clock counting down to the exam start.
- In the dead of night, all that could be heard was the reassuring tocktact of the kitchen clock.