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Clunker vs Flunker - What's the difference?

clunker | flunker |

As nouns the difference between clunker and flunker

is that clunker is (informal) a decrepit motor car while flunker is someone who has failed in an examination.

clunker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A decrepit motor car.
  • * 2004 , Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang (Seraphim Trilogy Book One), ISBN 9781411617216:
    • The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.
  • (informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
  • * 1974 , , " 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.
  • * 2006 , Elizabeth Crane, " 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.

    flunker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who has failed in an examination