clanging

English

Verb

clanging

1. present participle and gerund of clang

Noun

clanging (countable and uncountable, plural clangings)

1. A noise that clangs.
   • 1997, Helen Papanikolas, A Greek Odyssey in the American West, page 5:

     From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings.

2. (psychology, psychiatry) A mode of speech (or writing) characterized by compulsive association of words based upon sound rather than meaning.

Derived terms

• clangingly

 

Anagrams

• glancing