clack
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noisesTo make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
» My keyboard makes clicking and clacking noises.
Meaning
4 senses(intransitive)To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
(transitive)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.
- make a rattling sound
- make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Examples
4 sentencesMy keyboard makes clicking and clacking noises.
Her black boots clacked on the pavement.
I hear the storks clacking from up in the belfry.
The head nurse came striding up, her leather heels clacking on the tile floor.
Origin
From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, cFrom Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”).
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Forms
clacks, clacking, clacked, clackedSynonyms
17 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle