Clomp

//klɒmp// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Verb
  1. 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. 2
    walk clumsily wordnet
  3. 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."

Synonyms

All synonyms
clumpclumpstamp

Example

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"There was just a pause in the clomps, then Bill's boots went on toward the house."

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”).

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