click-clack

verb

To move with alternate clicking and clacking sounds.

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Meanings

verbclick-clack (third-person singular simple present click-clacks, present participle click-clacking, simple past and past participle click-clacked)

present singular third person click-clacks · participle present click-clacking · participle past click-clacked · past click-clacked

  1. 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

Origin

From click + clack. Compare Dutch klik klak, geklikklak (“click-clack”).

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