See clack on Wiktionary
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an abrupt, sharp sound",
"word": "kolina"
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"sense": "an abrupt, sharp sound",
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"ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 8, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
"text": "We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.",
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"ref": "1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 52:",
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"ref": "1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:",
"text": "There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1953, Janice Holt Giles, The Kentuckians:",
"text": "The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration."
]
},
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"glosses": [
"To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty."
],
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"(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty."
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"ref": "1934, Gladys Bagg Taber, Late Climbs the Sun, page 30:",
"text": "Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1964, Frances Margaret Cheadle McGuire, Gardens of Italy, page 57:",
"text": "We drive on between meadows of mown grass, through a pergola of vines, and so to an orchard of peaches, apples, and pears and a hen colony housed in neat modern cottages, the chickens clacking and scratching away […]",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "trakam",
"sense": "to make such a sound",
"word": "тракам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "čukam",
"sense": "to make such a sound",
"word": "чукам"
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"sense": "to make such a sound",
"word": "klaki"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make such a sound",
"word": "kalahtaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make such a sound",
"word": "kolahtaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make such a sound",
"word": "kalista"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make such a sound",
"word": "kolista"
},
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "chtypó",
"sense": "to make such a sound",
"word": "χτυπώ"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "trópa",
"sense": "to make such a sound",
"word": "тро́па"
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"sense": "to chatter or babble",
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"word": "бърборя"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to chatter or babble",
"word": "kälättää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to chatter or babble",
"word": "räpättää"
},
{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "bŕbori",
"sense": "to chatter or babble",
"word": "бр́бори"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "dŕdori",
"sense": "to chatter or babble",
"word": "др́дори"
}
],
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}
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