Chiq-chaq

Tree Line wrote:

I'm not Dave but the word means real quick, like "on the double."
It's Israeli slang so I am not sure if it's Hebrew or another language
but it's spoken by Israelis, or used to be in modern times.

So what's the story here?

There's a website from Israel called "Chiq-chaq". It's a "wiki" site,
which means that it allows users to modify (some of) the site's contents.
The word "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian word "wikiwiki", meaning "quick".
I've been investigating wiki sites because I might like to create one
for a project I'm working on, and among the links I came across was the
one for the Israeli Chiq-chaq site.

Joyce

Well, I guessed right for a change. I did a search for chik-chak, and at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/IS...011158-9547122
I ran across it as part of the title of a book on Hebrew grammar, and
they spelled it tsik-tsak = chik-chak. 'Ts' is an acceptable alternate
transliteration of 'tz' for the Hebrew letter tzadee.

wrote:
Tree Line wrote:

I'm not Dave but the word means real quick, like "on the double."
It's Israeli slang so I am not sure if it's Hebrew or another language
but it's spoken by Israelis, or used to be in modern times.

So what's the story here?

There's a website from Israel called "Chiq-chaq". It's a "wiki" site,
which means that it allows users to modify (some of) the site's contents.
The word "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian word "wikiwiki", meaning "quick".
I've been investigating wiki sites because I might like to create one
for a project I'm working on, and among the links I came across was the
one for the Israeli Chiq-chaq site.

Joyce