Click-clack

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a succession of clicks wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To move with alternate clicking and clacking sounds.

    "Cora whisked her hat down to cut off communion with him, and slid in among the trees. She lurked there till she heard him say, "Gedup," in a voice thick with rage, and horse and cart click-clacked off along the road, and left it free for her to follow."

Example

More examples

"Cora whisked her hat down to cut off communion with him, and slid in among the trees. She lurked there till she heard him say, "Gedup," in a voice thick with rage, and horse and cart click-clacked off along the road, and left it free for her to follow."

Etymology

From click + clack. Compare Dutch klik klak, geklikklak (“click-clack”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.