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