| 释义 |
klop, n.|klɒp|
Also clop.
[Echoic: cf. clip-clop, and Du. klop, G. klopf. In quot. 1893 prob. suggested by the Du. word.]
The sound of the impact of something solid on a hard surface: see quots. Also reduplicated klop-klop.
1841J. H. Sealy Porcelain Tower, Marr. in Mask 206 A rustle of pig-tails and a klop-klop of [Chinese] ladies' feet. 1854W. Collins Hide & Seek i, He heard the heavy clop-clop of thickly-booted feet. 1891Pall Mall G. 10 Jan. 2/3 A hard road beats musically to the klop-klop of galloping horse or march of men. 1893Blackw. Mag. Sept. 444 The crack was heard, again followed by the fatal ‘klop’ [of a beast falling].
So klop v., intr. to produce a somewhat hollow sound by striking a hard surface.
1841J. H. Sealy Porcelain Tower, Hyson & Bohea 99 The sad Bohea, who stay'd awake to weep, Rose from her couch, and lest her shoes should klop, ‘Padded the hoof’, and sought her father's shop. |