Clunker vs Clunkier - What's the difference?
clunker | clunkier |
(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, "
(clunky)
(informal) Ungainly; awkward; inelegant; cumbersome.
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As a noun clunker
is (informal) a decrepit motor car.As an adjective clunkier is
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(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.
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(er)British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky .
