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Definition of Click-clack
1. Noun. A succession of clicks.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Click-clack
Literary usage of Click-clack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"—OF cliquer, to click, clack, make a noise; Cotgrave.— Du. Hikken, to click,
clash ; also, to inform, tell ; whence klikker, a telltale. ..."
2. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"He's ne'er with toil or sorrow prest, While his mill goes click, clack, clack.
Click, clack, clack ... Click, clack, clack,— His mill gives clack for clack. ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1898)
"Fagged to death in mind and body, night after night I lay awake, quivering in
answer to the slow monotony of that everlasting click, click, clack. ..."
4. The Silent Readers by William Dodge Lewis, Albert Lindsay Rowland (1920)
"If we press and let go the key, the distant magnet will say "click-clack. ...
We can make it say a quick "click-clack" or a slower "click—clack". ..."
5. Madame Favart: Opera Comique in Three Acts by Jacques Offenbach, Henry Brougham Farnie, Henri Chivot, Alfred Duru (1881)
"Click, clack, click, clack! Hark to the whip 1 Our mettled steeds are neighing,
... Click, clack, click, clack, etc. At the end of the finale, HECTOR leads ..."
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