clonkn.
/klɒŋk/, U.S. /klɑŋk/ An abrupt, heavy sound as when something unresilient strikes a hard surface.
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1952 B. Cleary Henry & Beezus ii. 59 When it landed with a loud clonk, the whole class tittered.
1959 Elizabethan May 14/1 He tried to lower the object gently to the floor, but it was too heavy and dropped with a clonk.
1959 Listener 15 Oct. 650/3 Sometimes a bar is hit a most tremendous clonk and stays put.
1962 Times 22 May 7/4 A solid ‘clonk’ being the surest indication that the cogs were engaged.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
clonkv.
/klɒŋk/, U.S. /klɑŋk/ 1. intransitive. To make the sound described under clonk n.; also = clunk v. 1.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > become non-resonant [verb (intransitive)] > non-resonant impact sound > thud
soss1789
thud1796
flump1816
whump1897
phut1901
bonk1929
whunk1935
clonk1963
1930 [see clonking adj. and n. at Derivatives].
1945 E. Bowen Demon Lover 72 He drove fast, and..I heard the parts of the cleaner clonking about.
1963 Radio Times 14 Mar. 4/3 The machine..gurgled and clonked a time or two and waited.
1970 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 11 Cloggy shapes with cork or wooden soles that will make the city streets noisier still as they clonk through the summer.
2. transitive. To hit. colloquial.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object
drepeOE
smitec1200
buffet?c1225
strike1377
rapa1400
seta1400
frontc1400
ballc1450
throw1488
to bear (a person) a blow1530
fetch1556
douse1559
knetcha1564
slat1577
to hit any one a blow1597
wherret1599
alapate1609
shock1614
baske1642
measure1652
plump1785
jow1802
nobble1841
scuff1841
clump1864
bust1873
plonk1874
to sock it to1877
dot1881
biff1888
dong1889
slosh1890
to soak it to1892
to cop (a person) one1898
poke1906
to hang one on1908
bop1931
clonk1949
1949 ‘N. Blake’ Head of Traveller ii. 28 Janet Seaton..has already clonked Inspector.
1958 J. Cannan And be Villain vii. 167 Anyone could have..waited till Richard stooped over the filing drawer to clonk him.
1960 Spectator 23 Sept. 462/3 I have never been able to pick up a hammer without clonking myself one.
Derivatives
ˈclonking adj. and n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thud
daud1596
sosh1687
soss1718
devel1787
dump1820
thud1825
duff1859
pob1871
thrump1871
clump1891
plonk1903
plodding1905
plup1911
wumph1913
whump1915
whomp1926
whumping1928
clonking1930
bonk1933
bonking1944
thuck1948
doof1989
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > non-resonant impact sound > thud
dunting1683
thuddinga1813
whumping1928
clonking1930
plonking1977
1930 P. MacDonald Link viii. 156 The clonking noise of one of the swing doors of the smaller entrance opening and shutting.
1955 L. A. G. Strong Deliverance 9 It [sc. the tram] made such music up above, and such a set of clanking clonking metal noises down below.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1952
v.1930