click-clack

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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)

  1. 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.
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