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单词 clunk
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clunkn.

Brit. /klʌŋk/, U.S. /kləŋk/, Scottish English /klʌŋk/
Etymology: Echoic: compare Norwegian and Swedish klunk gulp, klunka to gulp, to guggle.
Scottish.
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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > water agitated in vessel
jaup1811
clunk1823
1823 J. Galt Entail III. xiii. 125 The corks playing clunk in the kitchen frae morning to night.
a1856 H. Miller Cruise of Betsey (1858) 224 There was the usual..mixture of guggle, clunk, and splash, which forms..the voyager's concert.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

clunkv.

Etymology: See clunk n. (Sense 2 corresponds to Swedish klunka.)
1. intransitive. To make the sound described under clunk n. colloquial (originally Scottish).In Jamieson; and in modern dictionaries.
ΚΠ
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 205 An' made the bottle clunk To their health that night.
1834 ‘C. North’ in Blackwood's 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. transitive. To swallow with an effort, to gulp down, bolt. (south-western dialect)
ΚΠ
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Clunk, To swallow. Devon.
1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 8 65.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 12/2 Clunk, to swallow with an effort; to bolt.
3. transitive. To hit or strike (so as to produce a ‘clunk’). Cf. clonk v. 2. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)]
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nolpc1540
bedunch1567
percuss1575
noba1586
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cuff?1611
doda1661
buffa1796
pug1802
nob1811
scud1814
bunt1825
belt1838
duntle1850
punt1886
plunk1888
potch1892
to stick one on1910
clunk1943
zonk1950
1943 I. Wolfert Tucker's People (1944) xiii. 202 Sit down or I'll clunk your other ear.
1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. vii. 73 With..Bill Johnson clunking the banjo.

Derivatives

ˈclunking n.
ΚΠ
1960 ‘N. Shute’ Trustee from Toolroom 163 The rudder in its pintles made a clunking sound.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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