Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to clack
Participle: clacked
Gerund: clacking
Indicative
Present
| I | clack |
| you | clack |
| he;she;it | clacks |
| we | clack |
| you | clack |
| they | clack |
Perfect
| I | have clacked |
| you | have clacked |
| he;she;it | has clacked |
| we | have clacked |
| you | have clacked |
| they | have clacked |
Past
| I | clacked |
| you | clacked |
| he;she;it | clacked |
| we | clacked |
| you | clacked |
| they | clacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had clacked |
| you | had clacked |
| he;she;it | had clacked |
| we | had clacked |
| you | had clacked |
| they | had clacked |
Future
| I | will clack |
| you | will clack |
| he;she;it | will clack |
| we | will clack |
| you | will clack |
| they | will clack |
Future Perfect
| I | will have clacked |
| you | will have clacked |
| he;she;it | will have clacked |
| we | will have clacked |
| you | will have clacked |
| they | will have clacked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | clack |
| you | clack |
| he;she;it | clack |
| we | clack |
| you | clack |
| they | clack |
Perfect
| I | have clacked |
| you | have clacked |
| he;she;it | have clacked |
| we | have clacked |
| you | have clacked |
| they | have clacked |
Imperfect
| I | clacked |
| you | clacked |
| he;she;it | clacked |
| we | clacked |
| you | clacked |
| they | clacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had clacked |
| you | had clacked |
| he;she;it | had clacked |
| we | had clacked |
| you | had clacked |
| they | had clacked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would clack |
| you | would clack |
| he;she;it | would clack |
| we | would clack |
| you | would clack |
| they | would clack |
Perfect
| I | would have clacked |
| you | would have clacked |
| he;she;it | would have clacked |
| we | would have clacked |
| you | would have clacked |
| they | would have clacked |
Imperative
| you | clack |
| we | Let's clack |
| you | clack |
Verbs conjugated like 'clack'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'clack'
black,
cack,
chack,
claik,
clank,
cleck,
click,
clock,
cluck,
crack,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to talk too much; to talk idly
- babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, claver, clepe, drivel, gabble, gibber, go on, jabber, maunder, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter
- sound
- click, clatter, rattle, clunk, thud, clap, crack
Antonyms
- sound
- infirm, impaired, injured, diseased
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1250, from O.N.
klaka "to chatter," of echoic origin.
2. From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*klakōną', Dutch '
klakken', Low Saxon 'klakken', Icelandic '
klaka'.
Sample Sentences
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We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 8, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
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[He] walked quite jauntily across the courtyard to the distant door, his sandals clacking against the marble. [1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 52:]
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There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings [1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:]
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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. [1953, Janice Holt Giles, The Kentuckians:]
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Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps. [1934, Gladys Bagg Taber, Late Climbs the Sun, page 30:]
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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 […] [1964, Frances Margaret Cheadle McGuire, Gardens of Italy, page 57:]