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clappedy

clappedy is the alternative form of clappety.

Meaning of clappety

Adjective

clappety (not comparable)

  1. Characterised by clapped or clapping sounds; clappy.
    • […] and she'd got knockety hands, and clappety feet, and beadly eyes; and she was so straggle-toothed that you could see right down her gullet into the fires of hell.1935, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 151, page 114

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Forms of clappedy

comparativemore clappedy
superlativemost clappedy

Origin of clappedy

From clap + -edy.

Questions about clappedy

What is clappedy the alternative form of?
Clappedy is the alternative form of clappety.

Words near clappedy in the dictionary

  1. clapped one's cheeks
  2. clapped out
  3. clapped someone's cheeks
  4. clapped together
  5. clapped up
  6. clappedy
  7. clapper
  8. clapper board
  9. clapper boards
  10. clapper bridge
  11. clapper bridges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clappedy (page history and authors); clappety (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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