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

Fans in lawn chairs — some who staked out prime backstop locations hours before first pitch and one woman who has been clanging the same cow bell here for decades — ring the field, while others sit on blankets on a berm down the left-field line.

From Los Angeles Times

Keith’s drive had just enough behind it, though, clanging off the metal gate barricading the first row of outfield seats.

From Los Angeles Times

Both teams hit goalposts in the second period with Wennberg clanging one early on a Rangers power play and Aleksander Barkov hitting one in close late in the second period.

From Seattle Times

On Monday, the daily news conference disintegrated into chaos, when anti-Trump demonstrators and hecklers surrounded the speakers, then effectively silenced them with shouts, whistles and the clanging of a cowbell.

From Seattle Times

She screams while being violently thrashed by an unseen great white shark and tries desperately to cling to a clanging buoy only to be pulled below the water one final time.

From New York Times

Related Words

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