to click one's tongue

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• click one's tongue — make a ticking sound using the tongue against the roof of the mouth …   English contemporary dictionary

• tongue — n. language 1) one s mother, native tongue organ of speech speech 2) to use one s tongue ( to speak ) 3) to hold one s tongue ( to be silent ) 4) to find one s tongue ( to begin to speak ) 5) to stick out one s tongue (the child stuck out its… …   Combinatory dictionary

• Click consonant — Manners of articulation Obstruent Plosive (occlusive) Affricate Fricative Sibilant Sonorant Nasal Flap/Tap Approximant …   Wikipedia

• click — n. & v. n. 1 a slight sharp sound as of a switch being operated. 2 a sharp non vocal suction, used as a speech sound in some languages. 3 a catch in machinery acting with a slight sharp sound. 4 (of a horse) an action causing a hind foot to touch …   Useful english dictionary

• click — click1 clickless, adj. /klik/, n. 1. a slight, sharp sound: At the click of the latch, the dog barked. 2. a small device for preventing backward movement of a mechanism, as a detent or pawl. 3. Phonet. any one of a variety of ingressive, usually… …   Universalium

• tongue — tongue1 W3S3 [tʌŋ] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(mouth)¦ 2 click your tongue 3 sharp tongue 4 silver tongue 5 sharp tongued/silver tongued etc 6 with (your) tongue in (your) cheek 7 slip of the tongue 8 bite your tongue 9 Cat got your tongue? …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• click — click1 S3 [klık] v 1.) [I and T] to make a short hard sound, or make something produce this sound ▪ The door clicked shut behind me. ▪ Mother clicked her tongue (=made a short sound to show disapproval) and sighed. ▪ Edmund clicked his fingers… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• click languages —       a group of languages found only in Africa in which clicks function as normal consonants. The sole report outside Africa of a language using clicks involves the special case of Damin, a ritual vocabulary of the Lardil of northern Queensland …   Universalium

• click — noun a short, sharp sound as of two hard objects coming smartly into contact. ↘a speech sound produced by sudden withdrawal of the tongue from the soft palate, front teeth, or back teeth and hard palate, occurring in some southern African and… …   English new terms dictionary

• Types of gestures — Gestures are a form of body language or non verbal communication.Although some gestures, such as the ubiquitous act of pointing, differ little from one place to another, most gestures do not have invariable or universal meanings, having specific… …   Wikipedia

• clichc — noun (C) an expression that is used too often and has lost most of its meaning: the old clichc that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link clichcd adjective click /klIk/ verb 1 (I, T) to make a short hard sound or make something produce… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English