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Clangy vs Clanny - What's the difference?

clangy | clanny |

As adjectives the difference between clangy and clanny

is that clangy is having a clanging sound while clanny is clannish; socially exclusive.

clangy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a clanging sound.
  • * 1940 , Mordecai Gorelik, New theatres for old?
    • And so is the music that sounds so squeaky and clangy to Western ears.

    Derived terms

    * clangily

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    clanny

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • clannish; socially exclusive
  • * 1991 , Gerald Lynch, Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers (page 35)
    • They were a clanny bunch who favored each other for jobs
  • * 2004 , Karin M. Ekström, Helene Brembeck, Elusive Consumption (page 63)
    • Each time I use a personal pronoun, I hear a mafioso echo, a clanny , insular, hegemonic reverberation