clanger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clang
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English clanger
From clang (“loud ringing sound”) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: clangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively).
pos: noun
examples: The front and patio doors are bugged. When you open one a contact breaks and off goes the clanger.
The conversation was hard-going; we didn't click at all, but then he dropped the clanger: Beazley has done a lunch with Maxine McKew and ‘It will be read as he wants to come back. Our people want to go big with it.’
Anyway, this clanger sounds. We put out our smokes, shoulder our packs, put on our helmets. The drill was that you turned around and handed your rifle to the guy behind you who then attached it to your pack while you attached the rifle of the guy in front of you to his pack.
gloss: The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.
pos: noun
examples: I dismounted and walked over to Pelleas. “You may remember me, my Lord,” I said. “You once made me a knife from a bell clanger. I am Morgan, Queen of Galloway.”
The clanger was made out of the same material, and attached to a chain at one end. The idea was to stick the clanger in the opening of the triangle and start circulating, whacking the triangle on all three sides as fast as you could.
He showed me where to pull the clanger, and I pulled and pulled and the clanging joined the music of the bombardment.
gloss: A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: In his speech, the best man got the bride's name wrong. What a clanger!
He dropped a real clanger when he criticized the paraplegic for not standing.
When a woman heckler at Rayleigh shouted, “No more clangers!” Brown proudly rejoined: “Now listen, dear. My latest clanger was to say that people should be allowed to buy houses at lower rates of interest than you can get them for at the moment. I stand by that.”
Furthermore if a person drops even a little clanger not only will he know but the others will know and the offender will certainly know that they know!
‘I say,’ he added, changing the subject completely and leaning closer, ‘sorry to hear about that Riding-Hood debacle. Don′t let it get you down, eh? We all drop a serious clanger sooner or later.’
gloss: A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: Geelong could not get their running game going and lapsed into clanger after clanger.
gloss: An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.
pos: noun
gloss: A cicada, Psaltoda claripennis, of New South Wales and Queensland, having an upper body of green and brown and clear wings with green veins.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
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