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Clack vs Flack - What's the difference?

clack | flack |

As nouns the difference between clack and flack

is that 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 while flack is flake (esp of snow).

As a verb clack

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

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.
  • flack

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
  • To hang loosely; flag.
  • To beat by flapping.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a publicist, a publicity agent
  • *1998 , , Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith , page 25
  • *:Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.
  • *1999 , Patricia Cornwell, The Southern Cross, page 233
  • *:Thought you were flack ," she said.
  • *:"I'm not flack ."
  • *:"All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to publicise, to promote
  • * 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld :
  • [..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.

    Etymology 3

    Variant of flak.

    Noun