clack-clackn.

Forms: Also clack-clack-clack, clack-clacking.

Etymology: Imitative; compare clack v.¹ and adv.

A repeated clacking noise.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [noun] > knack or clack

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1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 35 The infinite clatter of an old lady—clack, clack, clack.

1870 ‘M. Twain’ Curious Dream (1872) 5 Presently up the street I heard a bony clack-clacking.

1870 ‘M. Twain’ Curious Dream (1872) 6 I heard another one coming—for I recognized his clack-clack.

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 249 The clack-clack-clack of a machine-gun at close range.

1939 ‘C. S. Forester’ Captain Hornblower i. xii. 137 This clack-clack-clack of women's tongues..would drive him mad.

1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream 134 You heard the clack-clack sound as she [sc. a bitch] stood there drinking.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	clack-clack
释义	clack-clackn. Forms: Also clack-clack-clack, clack-clacking. Etymology: Imitative; compare clack v.¹ and adv. A repeated clacking noise. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [noun] > knack or clack knackingc1380 clacking1565 knack1565 clack1598 clack-clack1849 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 35 The infinite clatter of an old lady—clack, clack, clack. 1870 ‘M. Twain’ Curious Dream (1872) 5 Presently up the street I heard a bony clack-clacking. 1870 ‘M. Twain’ Curious Dream (1872) 6 I heard another one coming—for I recognized his clack-clack. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 249 The clack-clack-clack of a machine-gun at close range. 1939 ‘C. S. Forester’ Captain Hornblower i. xii. 137 This clack-clack-clack of women's tongues..would drive him mad. 1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream 134 You heard the clack-clack sound as she [sc. a bitch] stood there drinking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1849
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