Clonked vs Clinked - What's the difference?
clonked | clinked |
(clonk)
The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.
* 2002 , Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
A stick-like tool used to strike the surface of the water and produce a sound that causes nearby fish to attack the bait.
(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.
As verbs the difference between clonked and clinked
is that clonked is (clonk) while clinked is (clink).clonked
English
Verb
(head)clonk
English
Noun
(en noun)- The minute hand moved with a clonk , and shuddered to a halt on the 9.
clinked
English
Verb
(head)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 .