Toshikazu Kawaguchiの小説 "Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the Cafe" を読んでいます。
‘Thank you for waiting, monsieur!’ Miki said in an unexpectedly loud voice as she entered the cafe. Kiyoshi had assumed that only grown-up women could serve the coffee. ‘Is it you, monsieur, who wants to return to the past?’ ‘Miki, please, speak proper Japanese,’ said Nagare, aghast at her attitude. But Miki tsk-tsked him with a wave of her finger. ‘That is not possible, moi is not Japanese,’ she retorted.
"tsk-tsked" はオノマトペが動詞になった表現でしょう。"tsk tsk" の項で説明している辞書が多かった。
・Oxford English Dictionary: used in writing to represent the sound you make with your tongue when you think that something is bad: So you were out drinking again last night were you? Tsk tsk!
・Cambridge English Dictionary: used in writing to represent the sound made to show you disapprove of something, or a word said twice in a humorous way to suggest disapproval
日本語で「チェッ」と言うのと似ています。
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