clomp

UK /klɒmp/ US /klɑmp/
verb 2noun 1

Definitions

noun

1

The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.

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.

verb

1

To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.

[…] 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 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, […]

2

To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.

When Sarah pointed at the door, Thea took a few steps toward it, clomping her feet with each stride.

Kurt Fuehlen's brother, Helmut, waited at the basement doorway behind the cathedral, stomping his feet and clomping his mittened hands against his beefy arms.

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