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clomp

Pronunciation: /klɒmp/

The English word “clomp” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.

verb

  1. To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.
  2. To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.

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”).

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