Clack
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clack¹
- /klæk/
Rhymes with -æk
Where it comes from
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”).
noun clacks
- An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
- Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
- Chatter; prattle. whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack
- The tongue.
verb clacks · clacking · clacked
- To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
- To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
- To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration. There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings
- To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
- Dated form of cluck.cluck Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps.
Clack²
proper noun Clacks
- A surname.
