English

A pair of klompen (singular: klomp) – Dutch clogs – worn in the mud

Noun

clomp ‎(plural clomps)

1. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.

Verb

clomp ‎(third-person singular simple present clomps, present participle clomping, simple past and past participle clomped)

1. (transitive) To make a clomping sound (with some object).
   • 2010, Amanda Cabot, Scattered Petals: A Novel (Texas Dreams; book 2), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Revell, ISBN 978-0-8007-3325-4, page 47:

     When Sarah pointed at the door, Thea took a few steps toward it, clomping her feet with each stride.

   • 2012, William J. O'Malley, The Place Called Skull, Indianapolis, In.: Dog Ear Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4575-0943-8, page 7:

     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.

2. (intransitive) To move in a way that makes loud noises with one's feet.
   • 1847, Acton Bell (pseudonym; Anne Brontë), Agnes Grey: A Novel, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, 72, Mortimer St., Cavendish Sq., OCLC 9657458:

     […] 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; […]

   • 2000, Robin Maxwell, chapter 14, in The Queen's Bastard: A Novel, Scribner Paperback Fiction, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0-684-85760-2, page 100:

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

   • 2003, June Kant, “Castaway”, in Jan Fook, Susan Hawthorne, and Renate Klein, editors, Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women's Lives, North Melbourne, Vic.: Spinifex Press, ISBN 978-1-876756-37-6, page 17:

     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.

   • 2005, Alton L. Provost, Reflections in an Orphan's Eye: A Decade at Oxford 1947–1957, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 978-1-4134-7910-2, page 278:

     [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.

   • 2008, Stefan Zweig; Joel Rotenberg, transl., The Post-Office Girl, New York, N.Y.: New York Review Books, ISBN 978-1-59017-262-9:

     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.

3. (intransitive, rare) To walk with wooden shoes.