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Clomp
Definitions
- 1 The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.
"There was just a pause in the clomps, then Bill's boots went on toward the house."
- 1 To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs. intransitive
"[…] so having smoothed my hair as well as I could, and repeatedly twitched my obdurate collar, I proceeded to clomp down the two flights of stairs, philosophizing as I went; […]"
- 2 walk clumsily wordnet
- 3 To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound. transitive
"When Sarah pointed at the door, Thea took a few steps toward it, clomping her feet with each stride."
Etymology
Probably onomatopoeic or a variant of clump (“walk heavily and clumsily”), itself also onomatopoeic or perhaps from the notion of walking in clumps, from Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”).
Probably onomatopoeic or a variant of clump (“walk heavily and clumsily”), itself also onomatopoeic or perhaps from the notion of walking in clumps, from Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”).
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