Clack: alternatives and connections

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

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To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.

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To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Sound of any kind.

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To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.

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To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Outer.

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A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.

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To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

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To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

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To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.

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A tattler; a telltale.

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To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

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To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

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To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.

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To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

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To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

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To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.

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A balky horse.

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To beg.

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Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

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Nonsense or trivial talk

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To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

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To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.

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To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.

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Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle.

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To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.

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