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Definition of clonk in English: clonknoun klɒŋkklɑŋk An abrupt, heavy sound of impact. Example sentencesExamples - A few seconds later I heard a somewhat loud clonk and then an ‘OW!’
- While not entirely practical for our enclosed winter months, the subtle clonks of natural bamboo can be a calming force come spring.
- You both wait, while the metal cools behind you with irregular clicks and clonks.
- It's clearly been in use for some time as you can hear the clonks from the wonky pedal board quite audibly.
- There was a clumsy clonk on his door and Malin let Mr. Razors in.
- She turned when she heard the bat clonk against the floor, and stared at me through red puffy eyes.
- She said: ‘I heard this clonk sound and went to investigate.’
- The weakest element is the soundtrack - rhythmic rattles and plops, clonks, clicks and plonks, with vague background song - rather a letdown.
- He wore wooden shoes, that made a clonk and a clank every time he walked.
- All of a sudden there was a clonk and the housing vibrated - that was the moment I realised I was deep.
Synonyms bang, sharp noise, crack, boom, clang, peal, clap, pop, snap, knock, tap, slam, thud, thump, clunk, clash, crash, smash, smack
verb klɒŋkklɑŋk 1no object Move with or make a clonk. the horses clonked and snorted softly Example sentencesExamples - The forward soldiers, deployed in the left and right wings of the courtyard, opened fire at the Allied vehicles that came clonking down the road.
- We were further lulled into peace by the hypnotic clonking of their bells and the heady perfumes of alpine flowers.
- Wobble has a fine traditional singer in Liz Carter, whose cool, clear vocals are bolstered or dissected by his stirring, clonking basslines and dub effects.
- The window must have clonked itself open and shut at least a dozen times before the ‘tchay-kahve’ wake-up call signalled a close of play.
- Muffled noises, clonking footsteps walking down long hallways, I could feel a bright light shining on me.
- He turned and dropped his hooves from off the countertop, and they clonked onto the ground with a hard thud.
- In a flash, he was clonking and bonking away at the keys.
Synonyms thump, clunk, clonk, crash, smash, smack, bang, thunder 2informal with object Hit. I'll clonk you on the head Example sentencesExamples - I realized I was thinking about Siesuki and clonked myself on the forehead.
- Nick laughed at the Egyptian, who merely clonked him in the head with a thrown brush in response.
- There were several burns on my hand, and a piece of wood had clonked me on the back of the head.
- Yoh suddenly turned and clonked Tembru on the head for that remark.
- I picked up a stone and dropped it, realizing I would hurt myself also if I clonked him with it.
- Once the boom mic is out of the way and not likely to clonk me on the head (and it's happened too many times to count), I take a step forward.
- At the last possible second Jay jumped up and clonked the bastard over the head with the carbon dioxide canister of his paintball gun.
Synonyms hit over the head, hit on the head, hit, strike, buffet, bang, knock, thwack, slug, welt, cuff, punch, smash
Derivatives adjective Gone are the clonky Manitou forks of 2005 and 2006, replaced across the board by Rock Shox and Fox Forks. Example sentencesExamples - I did not get the likeness right and the whole thing felt clonky while I was doing it.
- It has the same clonky bassline melody and the same melody and the vocals aren't in it.
- Ride quality is a bit clonky over suburban surface imperfections, though far better out on the open road.
- At first he was sort of clonky in them but now, he's back at cruising speed.
Origin Mid 19th century: imitative. Rhymes bonk, conk, cronk, honk, Leblanc, pétanque, plonk, tronc, zonk Definition of clonk in US English: clonknounkläNGkklɑŋk An abrupt, heavy sound of impact. Example sentencesExamples - While not entirely practical for our enclosed winter months, the subtle clonks of natural bamboo can be a calming force come spring.
- The weakest element is the soundtrack - rhythmic rattles and plops, clonks, clicks and plonks, with vague background song - rather a letdown.
- He wore wooden shoes, that made a clonk and a clank every time he walked.
- A few seconds later I heard a somewhat loud clonk and then an ‘OW!’
- All of a sudden there was a clonk and the housing vibrated - that was the moment I realised I was deep.
- She said: ‘I heard this clonk sound and went to investigate.’
- It's clearly been in use for some time as you can hear the clonks from the wonky pedal board quite audibly.
- She turned when she heard the bat clonk against the floor, and stared at me through red puffy eyes.
- There was a clumsy clonk on his door and Malin let Mr. Razors in.
- You both wait, while the metal cools behind you with irregular clicks and clonks.
Synonyms bang, sharp noise, crack, boom, clang, peal, clap, pop, snap, knock, tap, slam, thud, thump, clunk, clash, crash, smash, smack
verbkläNGkklɑŋk 1no object Move with or make such a sound. the horses clonked and snorted softly Example sentencesExamples - Wobble has a fine traditional singer in Liz Carter, whose cool, clear vocals are bolstered or dissected by his stirring, clonking basslines and dub effects.
- We were further lulled into peace by the hypnotic clonking of their bells and the heady perfumes of alpine flowers.
- The forward soldiers, deployed in the left and right wings of the courtyard, opened fire at the Allied vehicles that came clonking down the road.
- He turned and dropped his hooves from off the countertop, and they clonked onto the ground with a hard thud.
- Muffled noises, clonking footsteps walking down long hallways, I could feel a bright light shining on me.
- In a flash, he was clonking and bonking away at the keys.
- The window must have clonked itself open and shut at least a dozen times before the ‘tchay-kahve’ wake-up call signalled a close of play.
Synonyms thump, clunk, clonk, crash, smash, smack, bang, thunder 2informal with object Hit. I'll clonk you on the head Example sentencesExamples - Yoh suddenly turned and clonked Tembru on the head for that remark.
- I picked up a stone and dropped it, realizing I would hurt myself also if I clonked him with it.
- Once the boom mic is out of the way and not likely to clonk me on the head (and it's happened too many times to count), I take a step forward.
- There were several burns on my hand, and a piece of wood had clonked me on the back of the head.
- I realized I was thinking about Siesuki and clonked myself on the forehead.
- Nick laughed at the Egyptian, who merely clonked him in the head with a thrown brush in response.
- At the last possible second Jay jumped up and clonked the bastard over the head with the carbon dioxide canister of his paintball gun.
Synonyms hit over the head, hit on the head, hit, strike, buffet, bang, knock, thwack, slug, welt, cuff, punch, smash
Origin Mid 19th century: imitative. |