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clomp

UK/klɒmp/ US/klɑmp/ uncommon

verb

1.

walk clumsily

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Origin

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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