tick-tock的词源解释,tick-tock来源

representing the slow, recurrent ticking of a tall clock, by 1845, a reduplication based on tick (n.2). Other representations of a clock or watch-like sound include tick-tack (1540s), tick-tick (1670s), tick-a-tack (1865).

To tock (v.) "make a sound slightly lower than tick" is by 1913, tocked (of a clock, with ticked).

该词起源时间：1845年