clicketty-clack

English

Noun

clicketty-clack (plural clicketty-clacks)

1. A clicking, clacking sound, as of horse hooves on a pavement.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 168:

     She drew aside off the road because of the clicketty-clack of horse and cart behind her, but the cart pulled up and a voice said, "Hallo, Cora, want a lift?"