单词 | clinkum-clankum |
释义 | clinkum-clankumn. = clink-clank n., or expressing a trochaic variety of the same sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > clink or chink > repeated clinkum-clankum1605 clink-clank1679 chinkling1755 1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. C1 Tis the tricke of most of these Sergeants, all clincum, clancum. 1769 in Chambers Scot. Songs (1829) 42 Wi' clinkum-clankum ower their crowns, The lads began to fa', then. 1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 175 This wonderfully poetic, clinkam clankum generation. 1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. 444 The clinkum-clankum of a bell. 1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods ii. v. 89 The clinkum-clank o' Sabbath bells. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1605 |
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