...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
It would be the sort of word Joyce would write.
The longest palindromic word in the OED
Coined by James Joyce, meaning a knock at the door.
...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
It would be the sort of word Joyce would write.
The longest palindromic word in the OED
Coined by James Joyce, meaning a knock at the door.