click one's tongueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

click one's tongue (三人称単数 現在形 clicks one's tongue, 現在分詞 clicking one's tongue, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.
   • 1896, Joseph Conrad, “The Idiots” in Tales of Unrest, 1898,^[1]

     The driver clambered into his seat, clicked his tongue, and we went downhill.

   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 14”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, OCLC 1810828:

     Elizabeth raised her gun, which had begun trembling as usual. The beaters halted in a group to watch, and some of them could not refrain from clicking their tongues; they thought it queer and rather shocking to see a woman handle a gun.

   • 1994, Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Chapter 2, p. 59,^[2]

     Radha Aunty clicked her tongue against her teeth impatiently. “Oh, I’m so tired of that,” she said. “Why can’t we just put it behind us.”