clunk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++clunk /klʌŋk/ noun [countable] SOUNDa loud sound made when two solid objects hit each other 〔物体相撞发出的〕啷声,碰撞声 the clunk of the car door being shut 汽车门关上时发出的碰撞声 —clunk verb [intransitive, transitive]
Examples from the Corpus
clunk• Eight digits, a six-second delay, and a clunk, then the hard burr of the country telephone.• If I accelerate hard then release the throttle suddenly, the transmission makes a clunk.• She was just about to rattle the huge gates in fury when there was a clunk and the gates whirred open.• I shove aside a pile of dehydrated red and black typewriter ribbons and set my machine down with a clunk.• There was the rattle and heavy clunk of a fridge door being opened and closed.• The bottle fell inside with a hollow clunk.• This time there was one ominous clunk.• He hears the two-part clunk of the receiver being set down.Origin clunk (1700-1800) From the soundclunk nounChinese
a sound solid when made Corpus loud two
clunk
clunk /klʌŋk/
noun [countable]
the clunk of the car door being shut
—clunk verb [intransitive and transitive]
clunk /klʌŋk/
noun [countable] Date: 1700-1800
Origin: From the sound
a loud sound made when two solid objects hit each other:Origin: From the sound
—clunk verb [intransitive and transitive]