cloppity-clop

A form of clippety-cloppety — The sound a horse makes when walking on a hard surface in horseshoes

Meanings

nouncloppity-clop (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of clippety-cloppety.

    It was late at night and frosty; high above them on the hills the cloppity clop, cloppity clop of a horse's hooves picking their way on the flinty stone track died away in the distance.

    1973, Patsy Adam Smith, The Barcoo Salute, Adelaide: Rigby, page 2

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