click-clack en · VERB
Etymology
From click + clack. Compare Dutch klik klak, geklikklak (“click-clack”).
Meanings
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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.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| click-clacking | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| click-clacks | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| click-clacked | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| click-clacked | Tense=Past | lexicographic |