click-clack
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From click + clack. Compare Dutch klik klak, geklikklak (“click-clack”).
Verb
[edit]click-clack (third-person singular simple present click-clacks, present participle click-clacking, simple past and past participle click-clacked)
- To move with alternate clicking and clacking sounds.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171:
- Cora whisked her hat down to cut off communion with him, and slid in among the trees. She lurked there till she heard him say, "Gedup," in a voice thick with rage, and horse and cart click-clacked off along the road, and left it free for her to follow.