| 释义 |
▪ I. clunk, n. Sc.
[Echoic: cf. Norw. and Sw. klunk gulp, klunka to gulp, to guggle.]
A sound such as is made by a cork drawn forcibly from a bottle, by liquid poured out of a narrow-necked vessel, or shaken in a vessel partially empty, etc.
1823Galt Entail III. xiii. 125 The corks playing clunk in the kitchen frae morning to night. a1856H. Miller Cruise of Betsey (1858) 224 There was the usual..mixture of guggle, clunk, and splash, which forms..the voyager's concert.
▪ II. clunk, v.
[See prec. (Sense 2 corresponds to Sw. klunka.)]
1. intr. To make the sound described under clunk n. colloq. (orig. Sc.).
In Jam.; and in mod. Dicts.a1796Burns Jolly Beggars, And made the bottle clunk To their health that night. 1834‘C. North’ in Blackw. Mag. July 138 Canna ye sook that back without your jaw-banes clunkin? 1960‘M. Cronin’ Begin with Gun ix. 106 His face clunked against the wall.
2. trans. To swallow with an effort, to gulp down, bolt. (s.w. dial.)
1847–78Halliwell, Clunk, To swallow. Devon. 1853N. & Q. Ser. i. VIII. 65. 1880 W. Cornwall (& E. Cornw.) Gloss., Clunk, to swallow with an effort; to bolt.
3. trans. To hit or strike (so as to produce a ‘clunk’). Cf. clonk v. 2. colloq.
1943I. Wolfert Tucker's People (1944) xiii. 202 Sit down or I'll clunk your other ear. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz (1958) vii. 73 With..Bill Johnson clunking the banjo.
Hence ˈclunking vbl. n.
1960‘N. Shute’ Trustee fr. Toolroom 163 The rudder in its pintles made a clunking sound. |