kloppen

Dutch (Brabantic)

/ˈklɔ.pə(n)/

verb
Definitions
  • (intransitive) to beat, hit
  • (intransitive) to knock
  • (intransitive) to defeat
  • (intransitive) to pulsate, like a heart
  • (intransitive) to be correct, to be true
  • (intransitive) to fit, work out, like a calculation; to make sense, to be true
  • (intransitive) to lead the devoutly professed, unmarried but non-congregational life of a Catholic klopje (klop)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch cloppen inherited from Old Dutch *cloppōn.

Origin

Old Dutch

*cloppōn

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