clog
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
Etymology [edit]
Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”)
Noun [edit]
clog (plural clogs)
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
- A blockage.
- The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- 1987, Withnail and I:
- Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs.
- 1987, Withnail and I:
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel
a blockage
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Verb [edit]
clog (third-person singular simple present clogs, present participle clogging, simple past and past participle clogged)
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
- The roads are clogged up with traffic.
Translations [edit]
to block or slow passage through
Irish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Irish cloc, from Late Latin clocca (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch Cornish clogh, Breton kloc'h), from Proto-Indo-European *kleg- (“to cry, sound”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: [kl̪ˠɔɡ]
Noun [edit]
clog m (genitive cloig, nominative plural cloig)
Declension [edit]
Declension of clog
Derived terms [edit]
Mutation [edit]
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| clog | chlog | gclog |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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