clomp
/klɑmp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There was just a pause in the clomps, then Bill's boots went on toward the house."
- ""Hello?" he called toward the closed door. "Anybody here?" Somebody must have heard him, because he heard something move on the opposite side of the door. First a distant sound like animals grunting, then a clomp, clomp, clomp like boots approaching."
- "Amidst the clomps of oncoming horses, he could now hear men's low, conferring voices."
- "[…] so having smoothed my hair as well as I could, and repeatedly twitched my obdurate collar, I proceeded to clomp down the two flights of stairs, philosophizing as I went; […]"
- "[The knight] clomped along on his carthorse, complaining that knightly deeds were very hard to come by these days, and that knights errant had to put up with wayside clouts and clodpate pummelling in place of jousts or arms and splintering lances for love of fair ladies."
- "The next day I couldn't use my black pair to school and in order not to spoil my white pair I used my bakias or wooden clogs instead. As I clomped into the classroom, for I was late that morning, my school teacher—a German nun—looked up and I saw her face wrinkle with displeasure, […]"
Etymology
Probably onomatopoeic or a variant of clump (“walk heavily and clumsily”), itself also onomatopoeic or perhaps from the notion of walking in clumps, from Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /klɑmp/
- British English: /klɒmp/