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Clanky vs Clanny - What's the difference?

clanky | clanny |

As adjectives the difference between clanky and clanny

is that clanky is making a clanking metallic sound while clanny is clannish; socially exclusive.

clanky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Making a clanking metallic sound.
    • My father's first car was a clanky old VW Beetle.
  • Providing audible indication of imminent mechanical failure.

    • 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