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.
1800 W. Somerville Narr. of E. Cape Frontier (1979) 28In their language, both have the peculiar clack of the tongue in uttering their words, but it much more frequently occurs in the Bosjesmans than in the Hottentots language.
1989 [see Khoi sense 2].
click. Also attributive.
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