clitter

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The big curved wings on either side flapped disconcertingly, flapped again 'click, clock, click, clock, clitter-clock!

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  1. To emit a short, shrill, strident call or note, as a grasshopper; make a slight rattle. The shrill cicala clittering from below. Lord Houghton, Never Return! l. 142.
  2. A slight rattling noise.
  3. Same as clatter, n. Compare clutter, n. [Prov. Eng.]

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  • Then suddenly I wasn't scared any more, and, well—I suppose I sort of went mad, and swept all the pans off the shelf, clitter-clatter, and booed at those men at the top of my voice, and chased them'" Ern began to laugh as he remembered "Honest. —  Mystery14 – Mystery of the Strange Messages, The
  • If its mechanical clitter-clatter did not render composition impossible, the typewriter would still be beneath the honour of a literary man Then for the paper. —  Certain Personal Matters
  • In spite of the opening and closing of doors, the hasty messengers, the ringing of bells and the perpetual clitter-clack of recording implements, Graham felt isolated, strangely inactive, inoperative His isolation seemed at times the strangest, the most unexpected of all the things that had happened since his awakening. —  The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes
  • Now, one day, when Mr. Vinegar was from home, Mrs. Vinegar, who was a very good housewife, was busily sweeping her house, when an unlucky thump of the broom brought the whole house clitter-clatter, clitter-clatter, about her ears. —  English Fairy Tales
  • They are having nursery tea at the present moment with a minimum of comfort and a maximum of noise, so if you can bear a deafening babel of voices and an unmusical clitter-clatter of crockery I will take you inside the room and introduce them to you Nursery tea is more an English institution than an Australian one; there is a kind of bon camaraderie feeling between parents and young folks here, and an utter absence of veneration on the part of the latter. —  Seven Little Australians
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  1. Imitative variation of clatter. Cf. chitter, chatter.
 

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