Sc. [Echoic: cf. Norw. and Sw. klunk gulp, klunka to gulp, to guggle.] A sound such as is made by a cork drawn forcibly from a bottle, by liquid poured out of a narrow-necked vessel, or shaken in a vessel partially empty, etc.
1823. Galt, Entail, III. xiii. 125. The corks playing clunk in the kitchen frae morning to night, as if they had been in a change-house on a fair-day.
a. 1856. H. Miller, Cruise of Betsey (1858), 224–5. There was the usual … mixture of guggle, clunk, and splash,… which forms … the voyager’s concert.
