Meanings
comparative more clackety · superlative most clackety · alternative clackity
- 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
Origin
Imitative, from clack.
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