CLUNG

Definition: CLUNG

CLUNG

1. Imp. & p. p. of Cling.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Cling

Intransitive verb

1. Wasted away; shrunken.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "CLUNG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Crosswords: CLUNG

English words defined with "CLUNG": Babies in the eyes ♦ cherished, cling ♦ desperately, determinedly ♦ hang, held dear ♦ unfalteringly, unshakably ♦ with determination. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CLUNG": BEG ♦ Old Man of the Sea. (references)

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Modern Usage: CLUNG

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Whatever happened to Fay Wray That delicate satin-draped frame As it clung to her thigh How I started to cry 'Cause I wanted to be dressed just the same. (The Rocky Horror Picture Show; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CLUNG

Domain	Title
Books	Clung (Thorndike Large Print Western Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: CLUNG

Author	Quotation
Abraham Lincoln	I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: CLUNG

Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	She raised her bare arm and clung to the damper of the stove as if she were staggered.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Ma clung to his arm.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CLUNG

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Mozambique	After World War II, while many European nations were granting independence to their colonies, Portugal clung to the concept that Mozambique and other Portuguese possessions were overseas provinces of the mother country, and emigration to the colonies soared. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given. Who is that, father? A mendicant, child, Haggard, morose, and unaffable -- wild! See how he glares through the bars of his cell! With Citizen Mendicant all is not well. Why did they put him there, father? Because Obeying his belly he struck at the laws. His belly? Oh, well, he was starving, my boy -- A state in which, doubtless, there's little of joy. No bite had he eaten for days, and his cry Was "Bread!" ever "Bread!" What's the matter with pie? With little to wear, he had nothing to sell; To beg was unlawful -- improper as well. Why didn't he work? He would even have done that, But men said: "Get out!" and the State remarked: "Scat!" I mention these incidents merely to show That the vengeance he took was uncommonly low. Revenge, at the best, is the act of a Siou, But for trifles -- Pray what did bad Mendicant do? Stole two loaves of bread to replenish his lack And tuck out the belly that clung to his back. Is that all father dear? There's little to tell: They sent him to jail, and they'll send him to -- well, The company's better than here we can boast, And there's -- Bread for the needy, dear father? Um -- toast. Atka Mip
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CLUNG

"CLUNG" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 81.74% of the time. "CLUNG" is used about 367 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	81.74%	300	16,755
Lexical Verb (past participle)	18.26%	67	40,952
Total	100.00%	367	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CLUNG

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
clung	8
clung mc nellie	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CLUNG

Language		Translations for "CLUNG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏التصق. (various references)

Bulgarian		прилепвам се (adhere, cling). (various references)

Chinese		紧贴 (Cling, Clinging, Nestle, Nestling). (various references)

Czech		příè.min. od cling. (various references)

Farsi		متصل(شده), چسبیده (Adhesive, Coherent). (various references)

French		attaché � . (various references)

German		klammerte (leeched, stapled), angeschmiegt (clung to). (various references)

Greek		αόρ. του cling. (various references)

Hungarian		ragaszkodott. (various references)

Indonesian		terpaku (fixed in enchantment, sticked). (various references)

Korean		달라붙�". (various references)

Pig Latin		ungclay

Romanian		trecut şi participiu trecut de la cling. (various references)

Russian		от cling. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		proš. vreme i particip od cling. (various references)

Spanish		pret y pp de cling. (various references)

Swedish		hålla vid fast (clung to). (various references)

Thai		กริยาช่องที่สองและสามของ cling. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CLUNG

Misspellings
	"CLUNG" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chueng, Chungju, clanga, Clonagh, clonb, clong, clonng, Clug, cluge, clugy, Clune, Clungwyn, Clunt, cluny, clyn, Culag, culn, Cung, Klong, Kulungu, shlung. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CLUNG"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "CLUNG" (pronounced klu"ng)
3	-l u" ng	flung, lung, slung.
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Anagrams: CLUNG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-l-n-u"
	-1 letter: lung.
	-2 letters: gnu, gul, gun, lug.
	-3 letters: nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "c-g-l-n-u"
	+1 letter: cluing, glucan, glunch, unclog.
	+2 letters: cingula, clueing, culling, culming, curling, glucans, gunlock, lucking, unclogs.
	+3 letters: buckling, calquing, caulking, cingulum, clangour, cliquing, clouding, clouring, clouting, clubbing, clucking, clumping, clunking, conjugal, coupling, cuddling, cullying, cultigen, cupeling, curdling, curlings, cuttling, duckling, glucagon, glucinic, glucinum, glunched, glunches, gunlocks, lunching, lurching, maculing, mulching, mulcting, muscling, plucking, ruckling, sculking, sculling, sculping, sluicing, suckling, ulcering, unlacing.
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