clack
Plural: clacks
Noun
- a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated
- a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction
- 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.
- The tongue.
Verb
Verb Forms: clacked, clacking, clacks
- To make a sharp, abrupt, dry sound.
- make a rattling sound
- make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
- To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
- To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
- To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
- Dated form of cluck.
Examples
- The sound of tiles CLACKING together signaled the start of another intense Scrabble game.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
blab, blabber, brattle, chatter, clack valve, clap, clapper valve, clatter, click, cluck, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle
Scrabble Score: 13
clack: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordclack: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clack: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary