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clomp

The origin and history of clomp.

Etymology

Probably imitative in origin, or else a variant of clump (‘walk heavily and clumsily’), which is itself either imitative too or perhaps rooted in the idea of walking in clumps, from Dutch klomp (‘clump, mass, wooden shoe’).

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