Clunker vs Clinker - What's the difference?
clunker | clinker |
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
* 2004 , Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang (Seraphim Trilogy Book One), ISBN 9781411617216:
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
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* 2006 , Elizabeth Crane, "
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering]] limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into [[nodule, nodules in a cement kiln.
Hardened volcanic lava.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 10:
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
As nouns the difference between clunker and clinker
is that clunker is a decrepit motor car while clinker is a very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.clunker
English
Noun
(en noun)- The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.
Who's Been Playing At Erma's Typewriter?," Ocala Star-Banner , 3 Oct., p. 12A (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009):
- I bought an old clunker of a typewriter.
Books: Best book by a Chicago author" (Review of Trouble'' by Patrick Somerville), ''Time Out Chicago , 28 Dec. (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009):
- All of the stories have a subtle undercurrent of brutality, and the writing is consistently sharp, direct and darkly funny, and there’s not a clunker in the bunch.
clinker
English
Alternative forms
* klinkerEtymology 1
From (etyl) klinkaerd, later (klinker), from .Noun
(en noun)- Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.