See clitter on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:",
"text": "Howard […] was even more aware of something else. A clittering sound. It was coming from behind him, and it was getting closer.",
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"ref": "1967 [1953], R.Hansford Worth, chapter 1, in G.M. Spooner, F.S. Russell, editors, Worth’s Dartmoor, Newton Abbott: David and Charles, →ISBN, page 24:",
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