"clomp" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /klɒmp/ [Received-Pronunciation], /klɑmp/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clomp.wav [Southern-England] Forms: clomps [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒmp Etymology: From Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”), from Old Dutch *klumpo, from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clump, lump, mass; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“clamp, mass”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|nl|klomp||clump, mass, wooden shoe}} Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”), {{der|en|odt|*klumpo}} Old Dutch *klumpo, {{der|en|gem-pro|*klumpô||clump, lump, mass; clasp}} Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clump, lump, mass; clasp”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*glembʰ-||clamp, mass}} Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“clamp, mass”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} clomp (plural clomps)
  1. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly. Categories (topical): Footwear, Sounds Translations (The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.): тежки стъпки (težki stǎpki) (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-clomp-en-noun-QcOC6DI9 Disambiguation of Footwear: 35 42 23 Disambiguation of Sounds: 42 16 42 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 41 25

Verb [English]

IPA: /klɒmp/ [Received-Pronunciation], /klɑmp/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clomp.wav [Southern-England] Forms: clomps [present, singular, third-person], clomping [participle, present], clomped [participle, past], clomped [past]
Rhymes: -ɒmp Etymology: From Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”), from Old Dutch *klumpo, from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clump, lump, mass; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“clamp, mass”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|nl|klomp||clump, mass, wooden shoe}} Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”), {{der|en|odt|*klumpo}} Old Dutch *klumpo, {{der|en|gem-pro|*klumpô||clump, lump, mass; clasp}} Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clump, lump, mass; clasp”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*glembʰ-||clamp, mass}} Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“clamp, mass”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} clomp (third-person singular simple present clomps, present participle clomping, simple past and past participle clomped)
  1. (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Footwear, Gaits, Sounds Translations (To walk heavily or clumsily): troupelear (Galician), stampfen (German)
    Sense id: en-clomp-en-verb-sI~5GtJA Disambiguation of Footwear: 35 42 23 Disambiguation of Gaits: 15 64 21 Disambiguation of Sounds: 42 16 42 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 41 25 Disambiguation of 'To walk heavily or clumsily': 97 3
  2. (transitive) To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Footwear, Sounds
    Sense id: en-clomp-en-verb-FF~6~cby Disambiguation of Footwear: 35 42 23 Disambiguation of Sounds: 42 16 42 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 41 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: klomp

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          "ref": "2003, June Kant, “Castaway”, in Jan Fook, Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, editors, Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women's Lives, North Melbourne, Vic.: Spinifex Press, page 17",
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          "text": "Then she'd be startled when a peasant clomped with heavy shoes into this world of seductive images, his pipe clamped between his teeth, his eyes bovine and sleepy, to ask for a few stamps, and reflexively she'd find something to dress him down for.",
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          "ref": "2011, Lisa Hughey, chapter 6, in Blowback: A Romantic Thriller (A Black Cipher Files Thriller; 2), [s.l.]: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]",
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          "ref": "2015 February, Coco Simon, “Cupcake Panda-monium”, in Alexis's Cupcake Cupid, Simon Spotlight, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, page 126",
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "težki stǎpki",
      "sense": "The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.",
      "word": "тежки стъпки"
    }
  ],
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}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Dutch",
    "English terms derived from Old Dutch",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒmp",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒmp/1 syllable",
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    "en:Gaits",
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        "singular",
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          "ref": "1847, Acton Bell (pseudonym; Anne Brontë), Agnes Grey: A Novel, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, 72, Mortimer St., Cavendish Sq., →OCLC",
          "text": "[…] so having smoothed my hair as well as I could, and repeatedly twitched my obdurate collar, I proceeded to clomp down the two flights of stairs, philosophizing as I went; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Liesel Commans Quirino, Why the Great Balls of Fire if I am Going to Go Pffttt Anyway?: 1931 to 1971, [s.l.]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 43",
          "text": "The next day I couldn't use my black pair to school and in order not to spoil my white pair I used my bakias or wooden clogs instead. As I clomped into the classroom, for I was late that morning, my school teacher—a German nun—looked up and I saw her face wrinkle with displeasure, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Robin Maxwell, chapter 14, in The Queen's Bastard: A Novel, Scribner Paperback Fiction, Simon & Schuster, page 100",
          "text": "Ambrose laughed as he lurched backwards and then clomped with his gold-tipped walking stick to the bed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, June Kant, “Castaway”, in Jan Fook, Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, editors, Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women's Lives, North Melbourne, Vic.: Spinifex Press, page 17",
          "text": "My exasperation turned to horror with the realisation that a cat cast in plaster would sink which sent me scrambling for the scoop net. Adding insult to injury, the bystanders cheered his [the cat's] undignified retrieval. With a mortified hiss and yowl he clomped with bedraggled hauteur below decks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Alton L. Provost, Reflections in an Orphan's Eye: A Decade at Oxford 1947–1957, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris Corporation, page 278",
          "text": "[W]e clomped up the steep rear concrete steps to the main (study hall) level and entered the hallway, where we then quite innocently clomped with our well-worn brogues into the study hall, where we sat to await the appearance of Witch Robinson.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Stefan Zweig, translated by Joel Rotenberg, The Post-Office Girl, New York, N.Y.: New York Review Books",
          "text": "Then she'd be startled when a peasant clomped with heavy shoes into this world of seductive images, his pipe clamped between his teeth, his eyes bovine and sleepy, to ask for a few stamps, and reflexively she'd find something to dress him down for.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Lisa Hughey, chapter 6, in Blowback: A Romantic Thriller (A Black Cipher Files Thriller; 2), [s.l.]: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]",
          "text": "I shoved the door closed and took off running for the steps. The clogs were too big and not the best shoes for sprinting. My feet clomped along the broken sidewalk.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 February, Coco Simon, “Cupcake Panda-monium”, in Alexis's Cupcake Cupid, Simon Spotlight, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, page 126",
          "text": "But now that we were running so late, I didn't have time to fuss with them. I jammed my feet back into my plain brown clogs and clomped back downstairs […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs."
      ],
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          "ref": "2010, Amanda Cabot, Scattered Petals: A Novel (Texas Dreams; book 2), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Revell, page 47",
          "text": "When Sarah pointed at the door, Thea took a few steps toward it, clomping her feet with each stride.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, William J. O'Malley, The Place Called Skull, Indianapolis, In.: Dog Ear Publishing, page 7",
          "text": "Kurt Fuehlen's brother, Helmut, waited at the basement doorway behind the cathedral, stomping his feet and clomping his mittened hands against his beefy arms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        "(transitive) To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound."
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      "word": "klomp"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "To walk heavily or clumsily",
      "word": "troupelear"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To walk heavily or clumsily",
      "word": "stampfen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clomp"
}

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