Clack
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
- 2 a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction wordnet
- 3 Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
- 4 a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated wordnet
- 5 Chatter; prattle.
"whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack"
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- 6 The tongue. colloquial
- 1 To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. intransitive
"We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches."
- 2 speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly wordnet
- 3 To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. transitive
- 4 make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens wordnet
- 5 To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
"There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings"
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- 6 make a rattling sound wordnet
- 7 To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. UK
- 8 Dated form of cluck. alt-of, dated
"Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps."
- 1 A surname.
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More examples"whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack"
Etymology
From 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”).