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clanger

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈklæŋ.ə(ɹ)/Part of speech nounSorted aceglnrStarts with CEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate

Word origin

From clang (“loud ringing sound”) + -er.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.’
  • 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.”

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