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clack

Best crossword clue

"Sharp clicking sound"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /klæk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted accklStarts with CEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2L3A4C5K

Definitions

  1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Word origin

From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”).

Used in a sentence

  • whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack
  • We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
  • [He] walked quite jauntily across the courtyard to the distant door, his sandals clacking against the marble.

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