Citations:tattarrattat

English citations of tattarrattat

• 2007, J. Jonathan Gabay, Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium: The Definitive Professional Writer's Guide, Routledge →ISBN, page 109

  The longest palindrome listed in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 12-letter word 'tattarrattat'. It is a nonce word (created for a specific event or circumstance). It means 'rat-a-tat'. James Joyce featured the word in Ulysses (1922): 'I knew his ...

• year unknown, Greg Evans, SPY IN BARCELONA, Lulu.com →ISBN, page 197

  I was lying on my cot rereading The Charterhouse of Parma when I heard footsteps in the hallway that stopped before my door. Then a tattarrattat upon the door with what sounded like the heel of a baton. Recreation time was over for my cell ...

• 2016, James Joyce, The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more, e-artnow →ISBN

  ... messengerboy today I thought it was a putoff first him sending the port and the peaches first and I was just beginning to yawn with nerves thinking he was trying to make a fool of me when I knew his tattarrattat at the door he must have been a  ...

• 1977, John Henry Raleigh, The Chronicle of Leopold and Molly Bloom: Ulysses as Narrative, Univ of California Press →ISBN, page 232

  ... knew his tattarrattat at the door" (747) 4. Has to peep out, as she always does, to see who it is at her door: "nobody to say youre out you have to peep out through the blind like the messengerboy today" (747) 5. Boylan is beautifully dressed: ...

• 1992, Medd Guinness, Guin: Book of Records '93 →ISBN

  The longest in English is tattarrattat (12 letters), a nonce-word meaning rat-a-tat appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some baptismal fonts in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey bear the circular 25-letter inscription NΙΨON ANOMHMATA MH MONAN ΟΨΙΝ.