thunk1
/θʌŋk
/noun & verb
Informal term for thud. [as noun]: the door closed behind us with a thunk...
- If it hits the sensor, you're rewarded with the satisfyingly realistic sound of a ball thunking into the bottom of the hole.
- He walks the field in a circle of death, pumping the lever action with a metal-on-metal thunk after each animal.
- There was a whistling sound and a thunk as a small dart-like object pierced the wall.
Rhymes
thunk2
/θʌŋk/ Informal or humorous past and past participle of think.
- Cline, Patsy
- cling
- clinger
- cling film
- clingfish
- clinginess
- clinging
- cling peach
- clingstone
- clingy
- clinic
- clinical
- clinical death
- clinical ecology
- clinically
- clinical pharmacology
- clinical psychologist
- clinical psychology
- clinical thermometer
- clinician
- clink
- clinker
- clinker brick
- clinker-built
- clino-