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Clack

//klæk// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
  2. 2
    a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction wordnet
  3. 3
    Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
  4. 4
    a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated wordnet
  5. 5
    Chatter; prattle.

    "whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack"

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  1. 6
    The tongue. colloquial
Verb
  1. 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. 2
    speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. transitive
  4. 4
    make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    make a rattling sound wordnet
  2. 7
    To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. UK
  3. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

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