See clout on Wiktionary
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"word": "car clout"
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"word": "clout chaser"
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"word": "cloutless"
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"word": "clout list"
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"word": "clout-nail"
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"word": "dishclout"
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"word": "ne'er cast a clout till May be out"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English clout, from Old English clūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The sense “influence, especially political” originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.\ncognates and related terms\nCognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German klōz (“lump”), whence German Kloß, and dialect Russian глуда (gluda). See also cleat.",
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"tags": [
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"pos": "noun",
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"ref": "1975, Len O'Connor, Clout--Mayor Daley and His City, page 74:",
"text": "Having relinquished his clout in City Council to run for a place on the county board, and having lost stature by reason of his failure to win the presidency, Duffy was in no position to seek the party chairmanship for himself",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1986, Tony Alessandra, The New Art of Managing People, page 76:",
"text": "[…]ethics officers themselves often complain that they can recommend but have little clout with which to create real change.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:",
"text": "The chopped mushrooms add depth to both the Waitrose and the Go-Go Vegan recipe, but what gives the latter some real clout on the flavour front is a teaspoon of Marmite.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Kimetrius Foose (Lil Skies), Myron Goedhart (lyrics and music), “Fake”, performed by Lil Skies:",
"text": "It's funny how they judge you when they see you made a change / I poured another four just to take away the pain / My friends weren't my friends, they was ^([sic]) looking for some clout / I had what they wanted so they always came around",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019 November 29, Taylor Lorenz, “Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom”, in New York Times:",
"text": "Rowan, like most teenagers on the internet, wasn’t after fame or money, though he made a decent amount — at one point $10,000 a month and more, he said. What Rowan wanted was clout. On the internet, clout is a social currency that can be used to obtain just about anything. Rack up enough while you’re young, and doors everywhere begin to open.",
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"Influence or effectiveness, especially political."
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"(informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political."
],
"tags": [
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"informal",
"uncountable"
],
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"_dis1": "56 0 29 1 2 0 3 2 7",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "influència"
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "váha"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "invloed"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"word": "vaikutusvalta"
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"word": "painoarvo"
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"word": "cloutti"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "influence"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 0 29 1 2 0 3 2 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"word": "Einfluss"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 0 29 1 2 0 3 2 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"word": "Gewicht"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Durchsetzungskraft"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "znaczenie polityczne"
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "influență"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "влия́ние"
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "influencia"
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cuña"
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"_dis1": "56 0 29 1 2 0 3 2 7",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
"tags": [
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"word": "valimiento"
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
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"word": "inflytande"
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"sense": "influence, effectiveness",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1910, Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding:",
"text": "‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Brian Daley, Jinx on a Terran Inheritance, page 338:",
"text": "One of her goons gave him a clout on the ear.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A blow with the hand."
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"(regional, informal) A blow with the hand."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "plesnica",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "плесница"
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"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "mastegot"
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"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "klap"
},
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "oorvijg"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "slag"
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"_dis1": "1 89 8 2 0 0 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"word": "tälli"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coup"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kopfnuss"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cíonán"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "udár",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "уда́р"
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"_dis1": "1 89 8 2 0 0 1 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zatréščina",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "затре́щина"
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"_dis1": "1 89 8 2 0 0 1 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"word": "mamporro"
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"_dis1": "1 89 8 2 0 0 1 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "smocka"
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Baseball",
"orig": "en:Baseball",
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"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
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"Fundamental"
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{
"ref": "2011 August 17, Michael Vega, “Triple double”, in The Boston Globe, page C1:",
"text": "'... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A home run."
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"raw_glosses": [
"(baseball, informal) A home run."
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"uncountable"
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"baseball",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "informal: home run",
"word": "kunnari"
}
]
},
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"langcode": "en",
"name": "Archery",
"orig": "en:Archery",
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"Sports",
"Weapons",
"Human activity",
"Hunting",
"Military",
"Tools",
"Human behaviour",
"Society",
"Technology",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:",
"text": "For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at,\nOur Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:",
"text": "A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.",
"type": "quote"
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"The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head."
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[
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"(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head."
],
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"government",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"martial-arts",
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"politics",
"sports",
"war"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "archery: center of the butt",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "doelwit"
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"tags": [
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"word": "roos"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "archery: center of the butt",
"word": "pilkka"
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"_dis1": "1 0 10 75 2 0 6 3 1",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "archery: center of the butt",
"word": "pilkku"
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{
"ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 12:",
"text": "When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg’s ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.",
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"glosses": [
"A swaddling cloth."
],
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"swaddling",
"swaddle"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"dated",
"regional",
"uncountable"
],
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{
"_dis1": "1 0 2 3 76 14 1 1 1",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"word": "pelenë"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 0 2 3 76 14 1 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "parcal",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "парцал"
},
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"_dis1": "1 0 2 3 76 14 1 1 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "wikkel"
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"_dis1": "1 0 2 3 76 14 1 1 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "luier"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 0 2 3 76 14 1 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"word": "kapalo"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 0 2 3 76 14 1 1 1",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"word": "lanjo"
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{
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"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"word": "clout"
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{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 129:",
"text": "His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 12, columns 1–2:",
"text": "If I were mad, I ſhould forget my ſonne, / or madly thinke a babe of clowts were he; I am not mad: too well, too well I feele / The different plague of each clamitie.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:",
"text": "[…] a clout upon that head\nWhere late the diadem stood […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 74:",
"text": "We condol’d with each other, and observ’d how wretchedly we look’d, all naked, except a small Clout about our Middles […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 33:",
"text": "The Byzantines, wrote Robert of Clari, hooted and jeered from the battlements, \"and let down their clouts and showed them their backsides.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag."
],
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],
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],
[
"patch",
"patch"
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"word": "Gewicht"
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"ref": "[1545?], John Heywood, The Playe Called The Foure PP […], London: […] Wyllyam Myddylton, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, The Play Called The Four PP […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London; Edinburgh: […] T. C. & E. C. Jack, […], 1908, →OCLC, signature [E.ii.], verso:",
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "clouting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "clouted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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}
],
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{
"word": "clot"
}
],
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1948, The Essex Review:",
"text": "He tells us how to butter eggs, boil eels, clout cream, stew capons, how to make a fine cake, an almond pudding and a raspberry conserve, […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Dated form of clot."
],
"links": [
[
"clot",
"clot#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"dated",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/klaʊt/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/klʌʊt/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊt"
}
],
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}
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"Middle English lemmas",
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"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Babies",
"enm:Burial",
"enm:Clothing",
"enm:Fabrics"
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"2": "clout"
},
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},
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"1": "sco",
"2": "clout",
"3": "cloot"
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
],
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"2": "ang",
"3": "clūt"
},
"expansion": "Old English clūt",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*klūt"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *klūt",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*klūtaz"
},
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"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English clūt, from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz. Compare cloud.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cloutes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"2": "nouns",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
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"expansion": "clout",
"name": "head"
},
{
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"1": "cloutes"
},
"expansion": "clout (plural cloutes)",
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}
],
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "clouten"
},
{
"word": "clouting"
},
{
"word": "clowter"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A (smaller) piece of fabric; a shred:",
"A patch (fabric for mending)."
],
"links": [
[
"piece",
"piece"
],
[
"shred",
"shred"
],
[
"patch",
"patch"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A (smaller) piece of fabric; a shred:",
"A bandage or dressing (for wounds)"
],
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[
"piece",
"piece"
],
[
"shred",
"shred"
],
[
"bandage",
"bandage"
],
[
"dressing",
"dressing"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A (smaller) piece of fabric; a shred:",
"rag, tatter (piece of clothing)"
],
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[
"piece",
"piece"
],
[
"shred",
"shred"
],
[
"rag",
"rag"
],
[
"tatter",
"tatter"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A (larger) piece of fabric; a cloth:",
"Threadbare or inferior clothing."
],
"links": [
[
"fabric",
"fabric"
],
[
"cloth",
"cloth"
],
[
"clothing",
"clothing"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A (larger) piece of fabric; a cloth:",
"Cloth for wrapping babies; swaddling clothes."
],
"links": [
[
"fabric",
"fabric"
],
[
"cloth",
"cloth"
],
[
"swaddling clothes",
"swaddling clothes"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A (larger) piece of fabric; a cloth:",
"A burial shroud."
],
"links": [
[
"fabric",
"fabric"
],
[
"cloth",
"cloth"
],
[
"burial",
"burial"
],
[
"shroud",
"shroud"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A washer; a round metal panel."
],
"links": [
[
"washer",
"washer"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A fragment or shred."
],
"links": [
[
"fragment",
"fragment"
],
[
"shred",
"shred"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A strike, blow or hit."
],
"links": [
[
"strike",
"strike"
],
[
"blow",
"blow"
],
[
"hit",
"hit"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/kluːt/"
}
],
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{
"word": "clowt"
},
{
"word": "cloute"
},
{
"word": "clowte"
},
{
"word": "clowtt"
}
],
"word": "clout"
}
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"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Babies",
"enm:Burial",
"enm:Clothing",
"enm:Fabrics"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "clout",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "clouten"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of clouten"
],
"links": [
[
"clouten",
"clouten#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "clout"
}
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