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clinkings

clinkings is the plural of clinking.

Meaning of clinking

Noun

clinking (plural clinkings)

  1. A noise that clinks.
    • A slight clinking behind me made me turn my head.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205

Questions about clinkings

What is clinkings the plural of?
Clinkings is the plural of clinking.

Words near clinkings in the dictionary

  1. clinkiest
  2. clinking
  3. clinking stuff
  4. Clinkingbeard
  5. clinkingly
  6. clinkings
  7. clinkity
  8. clinks
  9. Clinkscale
  10. Clinkscales
  11. clinkstone

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