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clackets

clackets is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 clackets

What is clackets the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Clackets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of clacket.

Words near clackets in the dictionary

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

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