clog
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
[edit] Etymology
Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”)
[edit] Noun
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.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel
a blockage
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[edit] Verb
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.
[edit] Translations
to block or slow passage through
[edit] Irish
[edit] Etymology
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”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [kl̪ˠɔɡ]
[edit] Noun
clog m.
[edit] Declension
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[edit] Mutation
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| 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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