Definition of Clonk

1. Noun. The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact. ¹

2. Verb. To make such a sound. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clonk

1. to make a dull thumping sound [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clonk

clonic seizure
clonic spasm
clonicities
clonicity
clonicotonic
clonidine
clonidine hydrochloride
clonidines
cloning vector
clonings
clonism
clonisms
clonitazene
clonixin
clonk (current term)
clonked
clonking
clonks
clonogenic
clonogenic cell
clonogenicity
clonograph
clonological
clonology
clonorchiasis
clonorchiosis
clonorchis sinensis
clonospasm

Literary usage of Clonk

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hand-book of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate by George Ripley, Bayard Taylor (1852)
"... and other place», when they rail fur a repetition of a particular song, Ac. ENDRO'MIS, a clonk made of warm • -.ч. • materials liko a blanket, ..."

2. The Analysis of the Hunting Field by Robert Smith Surtees, Henry Thomas Alken (1904)
"... putting a most deceitful little macintosh over his scarlet coat, would go clonk, clonk, clonk, with his spurs on the flags the rest of the afternoon, ..."

3. The Southern Review (1832)
"In sucli weather you see every man holding the corner of his clonk, or a pocket handkerchief to his mouth, and hurrying through the streets, without turning ..."

4. The Library of Choice Literature: Prose and Poetry Selected from the Most by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1881)
"She was in rags—perfect rags all below the bit clonk ; and we found the bairn, rowed in a checked apron, lying just behind the hedge. ..."

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