Clack vs Clackety - What's the difference?
clack | clackety |
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
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
* Thackeray
To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.
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)- Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack .
Derived terms
* clack box * clack dish * clack door * clack valveVerb
(en verb)- We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
- (Feltham)