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clacketed

clacketed is the simple past and past participle of clacket.

Meaning of clacket

Verb

clacket (third-person singular simple present clackets, present participle clacketing, simple past and past participle clacketed)

  1. (intransitive) To move with a clackety sound.
    • Out came a little old woman in tap shoes, clacketing along the floorboards.1998, Helen Garner, My Hard Heart: Selected Fiction, page 116
  2. (UK, intransitive, regional) To chatter or prattle.
    • You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end.1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis

Questions about clacketed

What is clacketed the simple past and past participle of?
Clacketed is the simple past and past participle of clacket.

Words near clacketed in the dictionary

  1. clacker balls
  2. clackerbag
  3. clackerbags
  4. clackers
  5. clacket
  6. clacketed
  7. clacketing
  8. clackets
  9. clackety
  10. clacking
  11. clackings

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