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▪ I. clonk, v.|klɒŋk|
[Echoic; cf. clank v.]
1. intr. To make the sound described under clonk n.; also = clunk v. 1. So ˈclonking ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1930P. Macdonald Link viii. 156 The clonking noise of one of the swing doors of the smaller entrance opening and shutting. 1945E. Bowen Demon Lover 72 He drove fast, and..I heard the parts of the cleaner clonking about. 1955L. 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. 1963Radio Times 14 Mar. 4/3 The machine..gurgled and clonked a time or two and waited. 1970Daily 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. trans. To hit. colloq.
1949‘N. Blake’ Head of Traveller ii. 28 Janet Seaton..has already clonked Inspector. 1958J. Cannan And be Villain, vii. 167 Anyone could have..waited till Richard stooped over the filing drawer to clonk him. 1960Spectator 23 Sept. 462/3, I have never been able to pick up a hammer without clonking myself one.
▪ II. clonk, n.|klɒŋk|
[See prec.]
An abrupt, heavy sound as when something unresilient strikes a hard surface.
1952B. Cleary Henry & Beezus ii. 59 When it landed with a loud clonk, the whole class tittered. 1959Elizabethan May 14/1 He tried to lower the object gently to the floor, but it was too heavy and dropped with a clonk. 1959Listener 15 Oct. 650/3 Sometimes a bar is hit a most tremendous clonk and stays put. 1962Times 22 May 7/4 A solid ‘clonk’ being the surest indication that the cogs were engaged. |