Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click. · To emit a click. · To snap one's fingers. · To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
The sound of a click.
Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).
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