Wordie: Tattarrattat: Comments

Comment by mollusque, 9 months ago

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:22:55 +0000

...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...
--James Joyce, 1922 Ulysses, p. 732

Comment by andrew.simone, about 1 year ago

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:11:37 +0000

It would be the sort of word Joyce would write.

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:04:41 +0000

The longest palindromic word in the OED

Comment by lurk, about 1 year ago

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:44:54 +0000

Coined by James Joyce, meaning a knock at the door.