clack, noun
- Origin:
- EnglishShow more English; echoic, perhaps a back-formation from clacking.
obs. except in historical contexts
click. Also attributive.
1786 G. Forster tr. of A. Sparrman’s Voy. to Cape of G.H. I. 227What cannot but render this language still more difficult for strangers, is, that these clacks are said to be performed, according to different circumstances, in three different ways, viz. more or less forward or backward on the palate.
click. Also attributive.