clangour
English
WOTD – 12 January 2012
Alternative forms
- clangor (US, Canadian)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklæŋəɹ/, /ˈklæŋɡəɹ/
- Rhymes: -æŋə(r), -æŋɡə(r)
Noun
clangour (countable and uncountable, plural clangours)
- (Britain, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
- 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,
- And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.
- 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,
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Verb
clangour (third-person singular simple present clangours, present participle clangouring, simple past and past participle clangoured)
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