clog
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”)
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
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.
- 1849, Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter 15,[1]
- […] as to the poor—just look at them when they come crowding about the church doors on the occasion of a marriage or a funeral, clattering in clogs;
- 2002, Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, Chapter 5, p. 92,[2]
- She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.
- 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:
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part 2, Canto 3, p. 329,[3]
- Yet as a Dog committed close
- For some offence, by chance breaks loose,
- And quits his Clog; but all in vain,
- He still draws after him his Chain.
- 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Letters” in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 115,[4]
- A clog of lead was round my feet
- A band of pain across my brow;
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part 2, Canto 3, p. 329,[3]
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
- c. 1595 William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act V, Scene 6,[5]
- The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,
- With clog of conscience and sour melancholy
- Hath yielded up his body to the grave;
- 1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Edmund Burke: Esq; one of the representatives in Parliament for the city of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. sheriffs of that city, on the Affairs of America, London: J. Dodsley, p. 8,[6]
- All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England, are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
- 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 56,[7]
- If we were as rich as your uncle, I should feel it to be both a duty and a pleasure to keep an elegant table; but limited means are a sad clog to one’s wishes.
- c. 1595 William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act V, Scene 6,[5]
Derived terms
- clever clogs
- clog dance
- clogless
- cloglike
- clogs to clogs in three generations
- pop one's clogs
- shot-clog
Translations
a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel
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a blockage
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an encumbrance or impediment
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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.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.
- For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable [sic] as against public policy.
- 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- 2014, Jeff Abbott, Cut and Run
- And in a burst of Celtic drums and fiddles, a bosomy colleen with a jaunty green hat and suit jacket riverdanced onto the stage, clogging with a surprising degree of expertise, barely restrained breasts jiggling.
- 2014, Jeff Abbott, Cut and Run
Derived terms
Translations
to block or slow passage through
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Anagrams
Irish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
clog m (genitive singular cloig, nominative plural cloig)
Declension
Declension of clog
- Alternative plural: cloganna (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms
- a chlog (“o'clock”)
- clog adamhach (“atomic clock”)
- clog cuaiche (“cuckoo clock”)
- clogach (“stunning, deafening; blistered”)
- clogad (“helmet”)
- clogaire (“bell ringer”)
- clogán (“small bell; small blister”)
- clogás m (“bell tower, belfry”)
- clogra (“chimes”)
Verb
clog (present analytic clogann, future analytic clogfaidh, verbal noun clogadh, past participle clogtha)
- (intransitive) ring a bell
- (transitive) stun with noise
- (intransitive) blister
Conjugation
conjugation of clog (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
clog | chlog | gclog |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “clog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 150
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “clogaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 151
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *klog, from Proto-Celtic *klukā. Cognate with Irish cloch, Scottish Gaelic clach.
Noun
clog f (plural clogau)
Related terms
- clegyr (“rock, crag”)
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
clog | glog | nghlog | chlog |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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