clost

See also: clôt

English

Adjective

clost

1. Eye dialect spelling of close.
   • 1904, Rex Beach, Pardners‎^[1]:

     Then she hugged the kiddie clost to her, standing straight and queenly, her eyes ablaze, her lips moist, and red, and scornful.

   • 1910, Stewart Edward White, The Rules of the Game‎^[2]:

     "It won't get clost to there," put in Jack.

   • 1922, Emerson Hough, The Covered Wagon‎^[3]:

     Don't waste no powder--let 'em come up clost as they will.

Anagrams

• Colts, clots, colts