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"(intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal."
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"(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call upon; cry out to."
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"To call to oneself; invite; summon."
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"(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call to oneself; invite; summon."
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"ref": "1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 408",
"text": "See Borneo's sea-girt shore where ever flow / the perfumed liquor's thick and curded gouts, / the tears of forest-trees men \"Camphor\" clepe, / wherefore that Island crop of Fame shall reap.",
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"ref": "1937, Rex Stout, chapter 8, in The Red Box",
"text": "Boyden McNair, with his right elbow on his knee and his bent head resting on the hand which covered his eyes, sat near Wolfe's desk in the dunce's chair, yclept that by me on the day that District Attorney Anderson of Westchester sat in it while Wolfe made a dunce of him.",
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"To call; call by the name of; name."
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"ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 173",
"text": "You tried to mentor someone, teach them the basics of the trade, and they ran off to clype on you.",
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"(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal, often with 'on') To tell lies about; inform against (someone)."
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"To be loquacious; tattle; gossip."
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"(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be loquacious; tattle; gossip."
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"(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To report; relate; tell."
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"ref": "a. 1547, “Virgil’s Æneid”, in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, transl., edited by Geo. Fred. Nott, The Works of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, volume I, London: T. Bensley, published 1815, book II, page 124, lines 1021–1024",
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"(now chiefly dialectal) A cry; an appeal; a call."
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"(intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal."
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"To call; call upon; cry out to."
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"(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call upon; cry out to."
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"(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call to oneself; invite; summon."
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 408",
"text": "See Borneo's sea-girt shore where ever flow / the perfumed liquor's thick and curded gouts, / the tears of forest-trees men \"Camphor\" clepe, / wherefore that Island crop of Fame shall reap.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1937, Rex Stout, chapter 8, in The Red Box",
"text": "Boyden McNair, with his right elbow on his knee and his bent head resting on the hand which covered his eyes, sat near Wolfe's desk in the dunce's chair, yclept that by me on the day that District Attorney Anderson of Westchester sat in it while Wolfe made a dunce of him.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To call; call by the name of; name."
],
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[
"call",
"call"
],
[
"name",
"name"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call by the name of; name."
],
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"archaic",
"dialectal",
"transitive"
]
},
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"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 173",
"text": "You tried to mentor someone, teach them the basics of the trade, and they ran off to clype on you.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To tell lies about; inform against (someone)."
],
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[
"tell",
"tell"
],
[
"inform",
"inform"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal, often with 'on') To tell lies about; inform against (someone)."
],
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"with 'on'"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"intransitive",
"often"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To be loquacious; tattle; gossip."
],
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"loquacious",
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],
[
"tattle",
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],
[
"gossip",
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"(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be loquacious; tattle; gossip."
],
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"dialectal",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English transitive verbs"
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"glosses": [
"To report; relate; tell."
],
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"relate",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To report; relate; tell."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"transitive"
]
}
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},
{
"rhymes": "-iːp"
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
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"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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"sense": "call by the name of",
"word": "designate"
},
{
"word": "dub"
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{
"word": "name"
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{
"word": "denominate"
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{
"sense": "tell lies about; inform against",
"word": "grass"
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{
"word": "snitch"
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{
"word": "rat out"
},
{
"sense": "be loquacious; tattle; gossip",
"word": "blab"
},
{
"word": "gossip"
},
{
"word": "chatter"
},
{
"word": "cleep"
},
{
"word": "clip"
},
{
"word": "clep"
},
{
"word": "claip"
},
{
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "clype"
}
],
"word": "clepe"
}
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"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/iːp",
"Rhymes:English/iːp/1 syllable"
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"2": "enm",
"3": "clepen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English clepen",
"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "clepien"
},
"expansion": "clepien",
"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "cleopian"
},
"expansion": "Old English cleopian",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "clipian",
"3": "",
"4": "to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore"
},
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"name": "m"
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{
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"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*klipōną",
"4": "",
"5": "to ring, sound"
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gal-",
"4": "",
"5": "to sound"
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"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "klippa"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian klippa",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "kleppa",
"3": "",
"4": "to ring"
},
"expansion": "kleppa (“to ring”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "-"
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{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "kleppen",
"3": "",
"4": "to toll, chatter"
},
"expansion": "kleppen (“to toll, chatter”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "kleppen",
"3": "",
"4": "to strike, sound"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "kleperen",
"3": "",
"4": "to rattle"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
"form": "clepes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"args": {},
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"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with quotations"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "a. 1547, “Virgil’s Æneid”, in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, transl., edited by Geo. Fred. Nott, The Works of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, volume I, London: T. Bensley, published 1815, book II, page 124, lines 1021–1024",
"text": "So bold was I to show my voice that night / With clepes, and cries, to fill the street throughout / With Creuse’ name in sorrow, with vain tears ; / And often-sithes the same for to repeat.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A cry; an appeal; a call."
],
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"cry",
"cry"
],
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"appeal",
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],
[
"call",
"call"
]
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"(now chiefly dialectal) A cry; an appeal; a call."
],
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"dialectal"
]
}
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"ipa": "/kliːp/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːp"
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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"word": "cleep"
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{
"word": "clip"
},
{
"word": "clep"
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{
"word": "claip"
},
{
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "clype"
}
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"word": "clepe"
}
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