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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

clackety en · ADJ

Etymology

Imitative, from clack.

Meanings

  1. That is characterized by clacketing.
    • It gave him such a shock, he snorted and bolted off down the street at a clackety clumping gallop, with Miss Swozzlepot squalling and bumping up and down and the knight walloping all over the saddle[.] 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 58:

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most clackety Degree=Sup lexicographic
more clackety Degree=Cmp lexicographic

clackety en · NOUN

Etymology

Imitative, from clack.

Meanings

  1. A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.

Forms

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clackity alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

rackety-clackety

Relateds

clickity · clacket · clickety