clack: difference between revisions

===Pronunciation===

* {{IPA|en|/klæk/}}

* {{rhymes|en|æk|s=1}}

 

 

====Derived terms====

 

====Translations====

* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|тракане}}, {{t+|bg|чукане}}

* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kalahdus}}, {{t+|fi|kolahdus}}, {{t+|fi|kalina}}, {{t+|fi|kolina}}

* Russian: {{t+|ru|треск|m}}

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* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|бърборене|n}}

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# {{lb|en|transitive}} To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

# To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.

#* {{quote-book|en|year=1953|author=Janice Holt Giles|title=The Kentuckians|passage=The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues '''clack''', and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too.}}

# {{lb|en|UK}} To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less [[duty]].

#* {{quote-text|en|year=1964|author=Frances Margaret Cheadle McGuire|title=Gardens of Italy|page=57

|passage=We drive on between meadows of mown grass, through a pergola of vines, and so to an orchard of peaches, apples, and pears and a hen colony housed in neat modern cottages, the chickens '''clacking''' and scratching away {{...}}}}

 

====Translations====

* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kalahtaa}}, {{t+|fi|kolahtaa}}, {{t+|fi|kalista}}, {{t+|fi|kolista}}

* Greek: {{t+|el|χτυπώ}}

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* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|бърборя|n}}

* Finnish: {{t|fi|kälättää}}, {{t+|fi|räpättää}}

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