clangour

clangour

English

WOTD – 12 January 2012

Alternative forms

• clangor (US, Canadian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklæŋəɹ/, /ˈklæŋɡəɹ/
• Rhymes: -æŋə(r), -æŋɡə(r)

Noun

clangour (countable and uncountable, plural clangours)

1. (Britain, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
   • 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,

     And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.

Derived terms

• clangorous
• clangorously

Translations

a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din

Dutch: geschal (nl), galmen (nl) Finnish: kalina (fi), kolina (fi) German: Schall (de) m, Getöse (de) n

Russian: бряцание (ru) n (brjacanije), лязг (ru) m (ljazg) Spanish: estruendo (es)

Verb

clangour (third-person singular simple present clangours, present participle clangouring, simple past and past participle clangoured)

1. (Britain, Canada) To make a clanging sound.
   • 1924, Jim Tully, Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography, page 67:

     It clangoured through the house like a bell in a tomb.

Translations

to make a clanging sound

Finnish: kajahdella (fi)

Russian: бряцать (ru) n (brjacatʹ), лязгать (ru) n (ljazgatʹ), лязгнуть (ru) (ljazgnutʹ)