clack

Meaning

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. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
2. 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. To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
5. Dated form of cluck.

Synonyms

chatter

clap

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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

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valve

water wheel

yak

yap

yabber

valvula

chack

hinged valve

clap valve

crack valve

beat

blather

buffet

bump

chink

chug

clangor

clangour

clash

cleft

clink

clobber

clout

crackle

crevice

cudgel

gossip

hit

ictus

impinge

jabber

larrup

lobe

maul

mill-wheel

mumble

natter

noise

peal

petal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klæk/

Etymology

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”).