Sunday, March 16, 2008
Clunch
I knew clunch would draw in the word imps. Its real meaning, however, is less than fascinating. Clunch is soft limestone used in carving. My dictionary says it's white and the carving work is internal which might mean indoors. Not sure about that. A carver out there might be able to throw some light on it. Your invented meanings for clunch, however, were fabulous. Exemplary. I loved them all. And well done to Thesaurus Rex who had a runaway win on the poll. Well deserved.
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Ah! 'Am pletty sure you'll find a clunch is a minor collision of road vehicles in China.Giving rise to well known chinese woad wage - "Why you no dwive poplee! You make me have clunch wid plarked car!"
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Hope you've caught up with your schedule, wordimp!
A clunch is a clutch of eggs laid by a chicken with inadequate grit in its diet. The eggs are therefore laid without shells and being pretty useless are often fed to the other farm animals...maybe for lunch?
A clunch is an extremely random hunch.
"I've got a clunch that the silver dry erase marker is somehow connected to the robbery."
A clunch is actually the original term used to describe a bunch.
It was so named After Mr Gerald Clunch, who was the first exporter of Bananas from the Canary Islands in the mid 1800's.
Upon trying to sell them in the UK, he coined the collective term for a number of Bananas as a clunch. The only problem being the market traders who came to sell them found the term both ridiculous and difficult to shout quickly in a busy market place, and started using the term bunch as it sounded better with bananas, and thus the term clunch went out of common use.
A clunch dampens the sound of a church bell.
A clunch is something a randy fellow does to an innocent maiden in the back row of the cinema.
Clunch is the onomatopoeic word that submariners use to describe the noise the hatches should make if correctly shut. There is a notice on all hatches which reads "IMPORTANT NOTICE: IF YOU DON'T HEAR THE CLUNCH, WE'RE ALL FISH LUNCH"
Clunch describes the gait of someone with pidgeon toes.
Clunch are discarded pieces of lumber that are used to lift the ends of tables to make then level on a slight slant.
Clunch is the noise I make when I bite the head off a sparrow.
A clunch is a bad predicament, similar to being in a pinch, only worse. Much worse.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
A clunch is when you slam a car door shut on your fingers. This term can also be applied when closing a drawer and aforesaid fingers fail to remove themselves in time.
A clunch is the collective noun for a goup of clams. A clunch of clams is the ideal amount to make perfect clam chowder.
'group' not 'goup'! Sorry
The sound made when you change gears and don't dip the clutch enough. Guaranteed to make everyone in the vicinity turn and stare and wonder how on earth you got your licence in the first place.
Clunch is the word that describes what you have to do to your bottom after eating dodgy seafood for lunch.
When I first saw the word, I thought of clutch purses, clunch being a very small purse.
Really cute blog.
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