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clanger | clanged |

As a noun clanger

is a very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.

As a verb clanged is

past tense of clang.

clanger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, UK) A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
    • He dropped a real clanger when he criticized the paraplegic for not standing.
  • * 1965 , Anthony Howard, Richard West, The Road to Number 10 , page 215,
    • When a woman heckler at Rayleigh shouted, “No more clangers!” Brown proudly rejoined: “Now listen, dear. My latest clanger was to say that people should be allowed to buy houses at lower rates of interest than you can get them for at the moment. I stand by that.”
  • * 1976 , Musical Opinion , Volume 100, page 244,
    • Furthermore if a person drops even a little clanger not only will he know but the others will know and the offender will certainly know that they know!
  • * 2006 , , 2009, unnumbered page,
    • ‘I say,’ he added, changing the subject completely and leaning closer, ‘sorry to hear about that Riding-Hood debacle. Don?t let it get you down, eh? We all drop a serious clanger sooner or later.’
  • (Australia, Australian rules football) A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".
  • * 2006 , Jim Main, Rohan Connolly, More Than a Century of AFL Grand Finals , page 202,
    • Geelong could not get their running game going and lapsed into clanger' after ' clanger .
  • Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively ).
  • * 1972 , The Saturday review , Volume 55, Part 2, page 21,
    • The front and patio doors are bugged. When you open one a contact breaks and off goes the clanger .
  • * 2005 , '', unnumbered page,
    • The conversation was hard-going; we didn't click at all, but then he dropped the clanger : Beazley has done a lunch with Maxine McKew and ‘It will be read as he wants to come back. Our people want to go big with it.’
  • * 2007 , Stephen H. Foreman, Toehold , page 195,
    • Anyway, this clanger sounds. We put out our smokes, shoulder our packs, put on our helmets. The drill was that you turned around and handed your rifle to the guy behind you who then attached it to your pack while you attached the rifle of the guy in front of you to his pack.
  • The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.
  • * 1994 , Courtway Jones, Witch of the North , page 254,
    • I dismounted and walked over to Pelleas. “You may remember me, my Lord,” I said. “You once made me a knife from a bell clanger . I am Morgan, Queen of Galloway.”
  • * 1998 , Dick Hyson, The Calling , page 100,
    • The clanger' was made out of the same material, and attached to a chain at one end. The idea was to stick the ' clanger in the opening of the triangle and start circulating, whacking the triangle on all three sides as fast as you could.
  • * 2011 , Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed , unnumbered page,
    • He showed me where to pull the clanger , and I pulled and pulled and the clanging joined the music of the bombardment.
  • An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.

    • Usage notes

    * (noticeable error) Usually appears with the verb drop.

    Synonyms

    * (noticeable error) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, faux pas, gaffe, pratfall

    See also

    * Bedfordshire clanger

    clanged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clang)

    • Anagrams

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    clang

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
  • Quality of tone.
  • The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
  • (psychology, psychiatry) A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • For much of this day, Mrs Y. wrote in her diary, covering page after page in a rapid scrawl full of paligraphic repetitions, puns, clangs, and violent, perseverative crossings-out

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.
  • * Prior
    • The fierce Caretes clanged their sounding arms.
  • To give out a clang; to resound.
  • * 1933 , Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death
    • A cell door clanged metallically and Wentworth was flung inside. He tripped, collapsed upon the concrete floor.
  • * 1920 , Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence Chapter XXIX
    • The clanging and groaning of the train came nearer, and it staggered slowly into the station like a prey- laden monster into its lair.
  • * 1917 , Rose Wilder Lane, Henry Ford’s Own Story
    • Then the sparks flew from the anvil while the great hammer clanged on the metal, shaping it, and Henry begged to be allowed to try it