clippety-clop

Examples

• All

• Clippety-clop, clippety-clop.

  Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

• ♪ Clippety clop over hill and plain

  Funny Cow (2018)

• Clippety-clop, clippety-clop.

  Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

• ♪ Clippety clop, clippety clop

  Funny Cow (2018)

• ♪ Clippety clop, clippety clop

  Funny Cow (2018)

• ♪ Clippety clop... -

  Funny Cow (2018)

• ♪ Clippety clop...

  Funny Cow (2018)

• We bowled down Front Street, clippety-clop, with people on the sidewalks too open-mouthed with astonishment even to laugh or make rude remarks, and turned over to Mohonk with half the town tagging after us.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The sound of the horse's hooves made a cheerful clippety-clop as they trotted down the cobblestone street.

• As the carriage rolled by, the rhythmic clippety-clop echoed through the quiet village.

Synonyms

H

hoofbeat

vsclippety-clop

6 4.3

The sound a horse's hoof makes when it hits the ground

focuses on the repeated rhythmic noise rather than the single action

C

clop

vsclippety-clop

4 7.9

A short loud sound made when a horse's hoof hits a hard surface

describes a continuous rhythmic series rather than one loud strike

C

clip-clop

vsclippety-clop

1 5.1

The sound horse hooves make when they hit a hard road in a steady regular beat

is the same rhythmic hoof sound rather than other types of noise

C

clopping

vsclippety-clop

1 7.7

A rhythmic sound horse hooves make on a hard surface

is the same rhythmic hoof sound but not a single short strike

C

click-clack

vsclippety-clop

6.3

A series of quick, sharp sounds like train wheels or high heels

refers specifically to horse hoof rhythm not mechanical alternating clicks

How Loud

clatter

36 4.0

clippety-clop

• Baby Talk

1 9.0

patter

9 4.0

to tap

174 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology