clomp — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.

   Examples

   There was just a pause in the clomps, then Bill's boots went on toward the house.

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   "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.

   Amidst the clomps of oncoming horses, he could now hear men's low, conferring voices.

Verb

1. To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

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   […] 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 knight] clomped along on his carthorse, complaining that knightly deeds were very hard to come by these days, and that knights errant had to put up with wayside clouts and clodpate pummelling in place of jousts or arms and splintering lances for love of fair ladies.

   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, […]

   Ambrose laughed as he lurched backwards and then clomped with his gold-tipped walking stick to the bed.

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   My exasperation turned to horror with the realisation that a cat cast in plaster would sink which sent me scrambling for the scoop net. Adding insult to injury, the bystanders cheered his [the cat's] undignified retrieval. With a mortified hiss and yowl he clomped with bedraggled hauteur below decks.

   [W]e clomped up the steep rear concrete steps to the main (study hall) level and entered the hallway, where we then quite innocently clomped with our well-worn brogues into the study hall, where we sat to await the appearance of Witch Robinson.

   Then she'd be startled when a peasant clomped with heavy shoes into this world of seductive images, his pipe clamped between his teeth, his eyes bovine and sleepy, to ask for a few stamps, and reflexively she'd find something to dress him down for.

   I shoved the door closed and took off running for the steps. The clogs were too big and not the best shoes for sprinting. My feet clomped along the broken sidewalk.

   But now that we were running so late, I didn't have time to fuss with them. I jammed my feet back into my plain brown clogs and clomped back downstairs […]

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

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   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.

Verb

1. walk clumsily

   Synonyms

   clump

   Broader terms

   walk