clanky
/ˈklæŋki/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Providing audible indication of imminent mechanical failure.
Example Sentences
- "My father's first car was a clanky old Volkswagen Beetle."
- "The English band Crass sounded like a bag of rocks: scrabbly drum rolls, clanky guitars, no bass end, the words a jabbery Cockney caterwaul through endless stanzas of common meter."
- ""But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers? "I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that."
Etymology
Etymology tree English clank Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English clanky From clank + -y.