Citations:tattarrattat


 * 2007, J. Jonathan Gabay, Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium: The Definitive Professional Writer's Guide, Routledge ISBN 9780750683203, page 109
 * The longest palindrome listed in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 12-letter word &#39;tattarrattat&#39;. It is a nonce word (created for a specific event or circumstance).  It means &#39;rat-a-tat&#39;. James Joyce featured the word in Ulysses (1922): &#39;I knew his ...
 * year unknown, Greg Evans, SPY IN BARCELONA, Lulu.com ISBN 9781105564048, page 197
 * I was lying on my cot rereading The Charterhouse of Parma when I heard footsteps in the hallway that stopped before my door. Then a tattarrattat upon the  door with what sounded like the heel of a baton. Recreation time was over for my  cell ...
 * 2016, James Joyce, The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more, e-artnow ISBN 9788026849827
 * ... messengerboy today I thought it was a putoff first him sending the port and the peaches first and 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 he must have been a  ...
 * 1977, John Henry Raleigh, The Chronicle of Leopold and Molly Bloom: Ulysses as Narrative, Univ of California Press ISBN 9780520033016, page 232
 * ... knew his tattarrattat at the door&quot; (747) 4. Has to peep out, as she always does, to see who it is at her door: &quot;nobody to say youre out you have to peep out  through the blind like the messengerboy today&quot; (747) 5. Boylan is beautifully  dressed: ...
 * 1992, Medd Guinness, Guin: Book of Records '93 ISBN 9780851129785
 * The longest in English is tattarrattat (12 letters), a nonce-word meaning rat-a-tat appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some baptismal fonts in Greece, Cyprus and  Turkey bear the circular 25-letter inscription NΙΨON ANOMHMATA MH MONAN ΟΨΙΝ.