Start with the sound: clunk, a low dull thud, the noise a thick solid thing makes when it lands on a table. Everything this word does comes out of that one noise. A thing that goes clunk is heavy, and heavy things get in your way — so clunky shoes drag at your feet. Then the noise leaves the physical world: software can go clunk step by step, and so can a sentence, or a form you have to fill in three times.
可以從那一聲開始想：clunk，低低的一聲鈍響，厚重的東西落在桌上的聲音。這個字的每個用法都從那一聲長出來。會發出那種聲音的東西一定重，而重的東西會擋路——所以 clunky 的鞋子拖著你的腳。後來這一聲離開了實體：軟體可以一步一步「咚、咚」地走，句子可以，要你填三次的表格也可以。共通點都是：走得動，但每一步都撞一下。
From the word’s history
clunk plus the ending -y: having or making that clunk sound.
clunk（鈍重的一聲）加上 -y（帶有…的）。所以這個字本來就是「會發出咚一聲的」，笨重和難用都是從那一聲推出來的。
Wiktionary entry 'clunky' in the supplied packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1105485783): 'From clunk + -y.'
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