clanging

[klang-ing]

noun

1. a pattern of speech observed in some types of mental illness, as manic disorder, in which associations are based on punning or rhyming.

Word History and Origins

Origin of clanging¹

clang- probably < German Klang sound, taken as clang + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

There is less shouting, banging and clanging and fewer voices raised in anger.

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He also wrote a poem about bells, bells, and more bells, ringing and clanging and jangling away, from tinkling sleigh bells like those of a troika, to the deep, basso tolling of funeral bells.

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The conductor came up behind them, still clanging away on his bell.

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As a crowd gathered to watch, he lifted his rifle and fired a bull’s-eye, setting off a loud clanging of bells.

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This sent alarm bells clanging back in Whitehall.

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Related Words

• deafening 
• discordant 
• earsplitting 
• noisy 
• piercing 
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