Clinked vs Plinked - What's the difference?
clinked | plinked |
(clink)
(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.
(plink)
(colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
* 1971: Louis C. Reichman, Barry J. Wishart, American Politics and Its Interpreters
* 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby
* 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller
As verbs the difference between clinked and plinked
is that clinked is past tense of clink while plinked is past tense of plink.clinked
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Verb
(head)clink
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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 .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* in the clinkplinked
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Verb
(head)plink
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Verb
(en verb)- He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows....
- Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
- The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."