clack
Significado (Inglés)
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- 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.
- (colloquial) The tongue.
Sinónimos
clapper valve
talk small talk
hinged valve
clap valve
crack valve
mill-wheel
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/klæk/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
In summary
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”).
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