Definitions for clanger

clanger clang·er

Spelling: [klang-er]
IPA: /ˈklæŋ ər/

Clanger is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in clanger (aceglnr).

Definitions for clanger

noun

  1. a person or thing that clangs.

Idioms

  1. British Slang. a blunder; faux pas. drop a clanger, to blunder.

Origin of clanger

First recorded in 1945-50; clang + -er1

Examples for clanger

The man whom the saloon-keeper had shot had but just been declared out of clanger and on the road to recovery.

But the mother was wise, and aware of the clanger, kept in her own hands the administrating of the medicine.

Indeed, it is probable Mr Adams had rescued more than Fanny from the clanger of a rape that evening.

But to many Englishmen the constant spice of clanger adds greatly to the charm of sport in Africa.

“But I fear there is clanger,” rejoined Karl, in a tone of undiminished anxiety.

An expedition in this direction was, till lately, certain to be attended with no small excitement and clanger.

To add to the clanger, the gratings had been thrown overboard, and there was no way of confining the captives in the hold.

The clanger of famine here has not ceased with a plentiful harvest.

Still Burgoyne, hoping that Clinton's diversion would effect his deliverance from clanger, would not think of retreating.

Fate had raised her son to the summit of earthly grandeur and saved him from every clanger.

Word Value for clanger
Scrable

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Words with friends

14

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