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Word entry · 5 letters

clink

Best crossword clue

"Small glassy sound"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /klɪŋk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ciklnStarts with CEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. make or emit a high sound

Word origin

From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (“to sound; resound”)), from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound”).

Used in a sentence

  • “You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.”
  • “The hammers clinked on the stone all night.”
  • “The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, / Unlifted was the clinking latch, / Weeded and worn the ancient thatch / upon the lonely moated grange.”

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