Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dull sound; a thump.
  • noun A blow that produces a dull sound.
  • noun Informal A stupid, dull person.
  • intransitive verb To make or move with a clunk.
  • intransitive verb To strike something so as to make a dull sound.
  • intransitive verb To strike so as to make a dull sound.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sound such as is expressed by the imitative verb clunk; the gurgling sound made by liquor when poured from a bottle.
  • To emit a sudden hollow, gurgling sound, such as is made when a cork is quickly pulled out of the neck of a bottle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact
  • verb to make such a sound

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
  • verb make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Imitative.]

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