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单词 clinkum-clankum
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clinkum-clankumn.

Forms: 1600s clincum-clancum, 1700s–1800s clinkum-clankum, 1800s clinkam-clankum, 1800s clinkum-clank.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: clink n.1
Etymology: Reduplication (with vowel variation) of an arbitrarily extended form of clink n.1 Compare clink-clank n., and also prinkum-prankum n., crinkum-crankum adv., n., and adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈclinkum-ˈclankum.
= clink-clank n., or expressing a trochaic variety of the same sound.
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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).
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