to clack
3
8.4
- verb
- /klæk/
- Archaic
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- When my husband was off working, I'd hear Mr. Fante clacking away at his typewriter.
- clack away
Examples
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Anna clacks up to him.
Fiction book (1991) -
If you are clicking and clacking every day with those that do, you are no better off than them.
Blog text (13) -
The clerk was clacking away on his keyboard; what did that mean?
Fiction book (1998) -
In many ways, most law school classrooms are a crucible of various technologies: students clack away at keyboards while professors insist on writing concepts out on the chalkboard.
Academic text (2018) -
The children were clacking excitedly about their favorite cartoons after school.
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At the party, everyone started clacking about their weekend plans.
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She clacked on about the latest celebrity gossip, hardly taking a breath.
Synonyms
86
2.7
To talk quickly and without stopping about unimportant things
75
4.4
Talk quickly in a silly way that is hard to understand
14
9.0
Talk loudly for a long time while complaining
9
8.4
To talk on and on in a silly way about unimportant things
6
7.8
To talk too much and tell secrets carelessly
5
6.6
To talk for a long time about small boring things
3
8.8
To talk a lot about unimportant things in an annoying way
1
7.1
To talk a lot about small unimportant things, often about other people
1
7.9
To talk quickly and unclearly so others cannot understand you
1
9.9
To talk for a long time about things that do not matter
1
9.4
To talk for a long time about unimportant things
1
9.1
Talk for a long time in a way that annoys other people
To talk quickly and without stopping about unimportant things
To talk for a long time about unimportant things in a silly way
Talk in a light, silly way about other people
To talk in a slow, unclear way about unimportant things
To talk or act in a silly, unimportant way
To have a light friendly chat about unimportant things
Antonyms
Compounds
1
7.7
A quick series of soft clicking sounds from machines or hard things hitting together
How Talkative
Surface Forms
Etymology
Clack comes from a simple sound word that copies a quick, sharp noise, like the sound of people clicking their tongues when they chatter; a helpful way to remember it is to think of fast, noisy talk. So, to clack about something is to talk quickly and lightly, like making repeated little noises with your mouth.