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单词 clack
释义 clack
I. \ˈklak\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English clacken, of imitative origin
intransitive verb
1. : to utter words or sounds rapidly and continually : let the tongue run on : chatter
 < just get her started and she'll clack all day — J.C.Lincoln >
2. : to make a sharp abrupt noise
 < the whiplash clacked, the jog-trot sharpened — Edmund Blunden >
or succession of such noises
 < teletypes clacked in all police stations — Time >
: clatter
 < she clacked up the aisle and entered a front pew — Bruce Marshall >
3. of fowl : cackle, cluck
 < hen voices clacking — Edith Sitwell >
transitive verb
1. : to cause to make a sharp noise : make clatter
 < grasshoppers … clacking their desiccate wings — William Goyen >
2. : to produce with a cracking or clapping sound; specifically : blab, babble
 < all sorts of rumors were clacked about >
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English clakke, from clacken, v.
1. : loud confused noise (as of many voices) : loud continual, importunate, or foolish talk : chatter, prattle
 < nothing but a farrago of the clack of nurses — Laurence Sterne >
2. archaic : an object (as a rattle or clack valve) that produces clapping or cracking noises usually in regular rapid sequence
3. : a sharp abrupt noise or succession of such noises often produced by the striking together of objects
 < dull clacks of plates and cups — Elizabeth M. Roberts >
4.
 a. : a gossiping tongue
  < her clack was going all day — Mark Twain >
 b. : one having such a tongue
  < that old clack >
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