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clack | clackety |

As a noun clack

is an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk.

As a verb clack

is to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

As an interjection clackety is

a clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.

clack

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk
  • Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
  • chatter; prattle
  • * South
  • Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack .

    Derived terms

    * clack box * clack dish * clack door * clack valve

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • * Thackeray
  • We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
  • To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
  • (Feltham)
  • (UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
  • clackety

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.
  • See also

    * clickety