I. ˈklak verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle English clacken, of imitative origin
intransitive verb
1. : to utter words or sounds rapidly and continually : let the tongue run on : chatter
just get her started and she'll clack all day — J.C.Lincoln
2. : to make a sharp abrupt noise
the whiplash clacked, the jog-trot sharpened — Edmund Blunden
or succession of such noises
teletypes clacked in all police stations — Time
: clatter
she clacked up the aisle and entered a front pew — Bruce Marshall
3. of fowl : cackle , cluck
hen voices clacking — Edith Sitwell
transitive verb
1. : to cause to make a sharp noise : make clatter
grasshoppers … clacking their desiccate wings — William Goyen
2. : to produce with a cracking or clapping sound ; specifically : blab , babble
all sorts of rumors were clacked about
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English clakke, from clacken, v.
1. : loud confused noise (as of many voices) : loud continual, importunate, or foolish talk : chatter , prattle
nothing but a farrago of the clack of nurses — Laurence Sterne
2. archaic : an object (as a rattle or clack valve) that produces clapping or cracking noises usually in regular rapid sequence
3. : a sharp abrupt noise or succession of such noises often produced by the striking together of objects
dull clacks of plates and cups — Elizabeth M. Roberts
4.
a. : a gossiping tongue
her clack was going all day — Mark Twain
b. : one having such a tongue
that old clack