clack

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
2. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
3. Chatter; prattle.
4. (colloquial) The tongue.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
2. (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
3. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
4. (UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
5. (alt-of, dated) Dated form of cluck.

Concepten

ratel

klakken

roddelen

klik

ratelen

Synoniemen

chatter

clap

👏

prattle

blabber

prate

click

twaddle

blab

maunder

tittle-tattle

palaver

gabble

piffle

gibber

clatter

cluck

clank

bang

rattle

clapper valve

tattle

snap

crash

clang

clack valve

cackle

din

brattle

smack

knock

crack

pitapat

pop

rap

rattling

report

shroud

slat

smash

smite

squawk

strike

swat

talk small talk

thrash

tick

tongue

👅

valve

water wheel

yak

Vertalingen

strepitare

takırtı

Klappe

schiamazzo

çatırdamak

takırdamak

valvola

claquer

produrre uno schiocco

schiamazzare

schiocco

schioccare

çatırtı

gevezelik

tıkırtı

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/klæk/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: clacken

Overgenomen van Oudengels: *clacian

Verwant aan Schots: clake

Verwant aan Nederlands: klakken

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: klakken

Verwant aan Noors: -

Verwant aan IJslands: klaka

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”).