Clang

Definitions

1. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
2. Quality of tone.
3. The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
4. A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.

Equivalents

Examples

“Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer⟳ Came down upon her head Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer⟳ Made sure that she was dead”

“For much of this day, Mrs Y. wrote in her diary, covering page after page in a rapid scrawl full of paligraphic repetitions, puns, clangs, and violent, perseverative crossings-out […]”

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