clack

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack
  4. The tongue. colloquial
动词 v.
  1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. intransitive
    — We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
  2. To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. transitive
  3. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
    — There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings
  4. To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. UK
  5. Dated form of cluck. alt-of,dated
    — Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps.

词形变化

clacks plural clacks present,singular,third-person clacking participle,present clacked participle,past clacked past

词汇关系

衍生词
clack box clack dish clack door clackity clack valve clacky click-clack clicketty-clack pokerclack tongue clacking clacker

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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