can you tsk?

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Is this a sentence? Meaning, can I use that as a verb and get away with it?

Garcia tsked, and shook his head.
 

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I use it Deek like this.

Sam shook his head, tsk, tsk tsk.
 

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I'll take you to tsk on that, Colorado.

Thanks everyone. I think I'll use it, to be controversial. "He used the T-word!"
 

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I would say, Garcia tsked. To me, the rest would be implied in the act of tsking. Just me, though. I like to be succinct in my prose. I might have wrote it the way you did...but I would have edited out the, 'and shook his head.'
 

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I also do a tut, tut, tut.
I whispered in her ear as I passed. "Tut, tut, tut, somebody looks like an ol' dried up strawberry." Then I flicked her forehead, casually sauntered by and arched my brow in challenge.

Go back and forth, one is childs voice, another, the tsk tsk, is adults.
 

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Dawno said:
Aren't what you're doing is quoting the dismissive sound he's making? So shouldn't it be in quotes?
Here's the funny thing: whatever sound that represents can probably be spelled better than that!
 

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I also do a tut, tut, tut.
I whispered in her ear as I passed. "Tut, tut, tut, somebody looks like an ol' dried up strawberry." Then I flicked her forehead, casually sauntered by and arched my brow in challenge.

Go back and forth, one is childs voice, another, the tsk tsk, is adults.
"Tutted" sounds familiar. But if you said "tsked", I'd know what you meant. And it could get you in urbandictionary again.
 

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Is this a sentence? Meaning, can I use that as a verb and get away with it?

Garcia tsked, and shook his head.

I use tsk once in 88k. :) It's great for overconfident antagonists, imo. Not sure if it's professional, but you know what, after 88k, I can put one made up word in there! :D
 

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I didn't realize this discussion was over whether or not to actually use tsk based on its legitimacy as a word. It's in all the dictionaries, guys. I use it often. My characters are usually insanely sarcastic...they tsk.
 

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I didn't realize this discussion was over whether or not to actually use tsk based on its legitimacy as a word. It's in all the dictionaries, guys. I use it often. My characters are usually insanely sarcastic...they tsk.
Me too! I tut and tsk :D. It works... for me.
 

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Like some of the others here, I must confess to tsking in my stories.
 

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"tsk" is listed in the OED, and it says it can be a verb (both transitive and intrasitive)....if that means anything..
 
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