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click-clacking

click-clacking is the present participle and gerund of click-clack.

Meaning of click-clack

Verb

click-clack (third-person singular simple present click-clacks, present participle click-clacking, simple past and past participle click-clacked)

  1. To move with alternate clicking and clacking sounds.
    • Cora whisked her hat down to cut off communion with him, and slid in among the trees. She lurked there till she heard him say, "Gedup," in a voice thick with rage, and horse and cart click-clacked off along the road, and left it free for her to follow.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171

Questions about click-clacking

What is click-clacking the present participle and gerund of?
Click-clacking is the present participle and gerund of click-clack.

Words near click-clacking in the dictionary

  1. click-baitier
  2. click-baitiest
  3. click-baity
  4. click-clack
  5. click-clacked
  6. click-clacking
  7. click-clacks
  8. click-handed
  9. click-through
  10. click-through rate
  11. click-through rates

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