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clacketing

clacketing is the present participle and gerund 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 clacketing

What is clacketing the present participle and gerund of?
Clacketing is the present participle and gerund of clacket.

Words near clacketing in the dictionary

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

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