clockie

English

Etymology

From clock +‎ -ie.

Noun

clockie (plural clockies)

  1. (colloquial, rare) Diminutive of clock.
    • 1922 January 28, Clovis Kettelman, “Cheerful Cherub Poster Poems”, in The Lodi Sentinel, 41st year, number 85, Lodi, Calif., →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
      I made a little pudding / So nice, and round, and plump; / But it baked all in a lump; / Because my little clockie / Stopped his little “tick-a-tock”.
    • 2002 May 10, Max Keon, “H&K Experiment Falsifies Relativity.”, in sci.physics.relativity‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 August 2025:
      The GR input is only to do with altitude, and if the average altitude per time of each aircraft is the same for the journey, exactly the same GR value is directly subtracted from the SR time slowing of both airborne clocks. […] If the average height for the total of the journey was not going to be fairly strictly monitored, what was the point of the experiment? I find it very hard to believe that Hafele and Keating were just taking their little clockies on an outing.
    • 2019, Yulia Izmaylova, Felix Strasser, translated by Erling Wold, Uksus, [United States]: MinMax, →OCLC, page 19, columns 1–2:
      Where is the office clock? / If this little clockie dangling / its two weights a-hanging down / oldish clockie while still pending / flew an arc without a frown / ruckrr apprr wustrr wustrr / I destroyed the running clock
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