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)
- 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
- 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.
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