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clackety

clackety adjective: that is characterized by clacketing.

Adjective

clackety (comparative more clackety, superlative most clackety)

  1. That is characterized by clacketing.
    • It gave him such a shock, he snorted and bolted off down the street at a clackety clumping gallop, with Miss Swozzlepot squalling and bumping up and down and the knight walloping all over the saddle[.]1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 58

Noun

clackety

  1. A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.

Forms of clackety

comparativemore clackety
superlativemost clackety
alternative formclackity

Origin of clackety

Imitative, from clack.

Words formed from clackety

Questions about clackety

What does clackety mean?
Clackety means that is characterized by clacketing.
What part of speech is clackety?
Clackety can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near clackety in the dictionary

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

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