clinchpoop

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Noun

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clinchpoop (plural clinchpoops)

  1. (obsolete, derogatory) Alternative spelling of clenchpoop
    • 1949, Thomas Bertram Costain, High Towers:
      There was an unctuous quality to his voice and a description of him which she had once heard the baron use went through her mind: "that pompous old clinchpoop."
    • 1983, Charles Larson, The Portland Murders:
      "Oh, don't deny it!" Isabel cried dramatically. "There's a word for me in Old English! Clinchpoop!"
      "Clinchpoop?"
      "I am a clinchpoop! A clod and a boor and a—"
      "You're not a clinchpoop."
      "And do you know what the height of clinchpoopery is? It's when you realize the other guy's right but you won't say so because you're too bloody selfish!"
    • 2006, Roger McGough, “Prayer to Saint Grobianos, the Patron Saint of Coarse People”, in Selected Poems, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 152:
      Have pity on we poor wretched sinners / We blatherskites and lopdoodles / Lickspiggots and clinchpoops / Quibberdicks and Quakebuttocks.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clenchpoop.