clop

English

Etymology

Perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch kloppen (“to hit, knock”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch cloppen (“to make a clopping sound”), of onomatopoeic origin. See also clap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

clop (plural clops)

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.

Translations

The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground

• Polish: tętent (pl) m
• Russian: цо́канье (ru) n (cókanʹje), цо́кот (ru) m (cókot)
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Verb

clop (third-person singular simple present clops, present participle clopping, simple past and past participle clopped)

1. To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 569:

     Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in.

Anagrams

• CPOL, OLPC, colp, ploc

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Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin cloppus.

Adjective

clop m (oblique and nominative feminine singular clope)

1. hobbling; limping

Declension

Declension of clop

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	clos	clope	clop
	Oblique	clop			clope	clop
Plural	Subject	clop	clopes		clop
	Oblique	clos			clopes	clop