Clink vs Clong - What's the difference?
clink | clong |
(onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
* Tennyson
(humorous, dated) To rhyme.
(slang) Jail or prison, after (w) prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase (in the clink).
Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
As verbs the difference between clink and clong
is that clink is to make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another while clong is (obsolete).As a noun clink
is (onomatopoeia) the sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass or clink can be (slang) jail or prison, after (w) prison in southwark, london used in the phrase (in the clink).clink
English
Etymology 1
Onomatpoeic, as metal against metal. Related to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). Maybe from (etyl) , related to call. English onomatopoeiasNoun
(en noun)- You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
- When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
Verb
(en verb)- The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
- the clinking latch
Etymology 2
From prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.Noun
(en noun)- If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink .
