clippety-clop
/klip-i-tee-klop/US // ˈklɪp ɪ tiˈklɒp //
哗啦啦,哗哗哗,哗啦哗啦
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the sound struck by the hoofs of a horse trotting on pavement, or any staccato, rhythmic sound resembling it.
Examples
He marches up and down, beating two pieces of wood together--clop-clop, clop-clop--as he walks.
It is a plovelb, and says, ‘A new field gives a small clop,’ or ‘Human life is but fifty years.’
The cloppety-clop of the feet of a passing cab horse now came in through the open door of the vestibule.
Then the driver jumps to the seat and gathers up the reins and says “Go on, Old Dan,” and clopperty, clopperty clop!
Then the girls heard a faint clip-clop of hoof-beats on the rocky trail leading along Top Notch.
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