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"word": "clout list"
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"word": "ne'er cast a clout til 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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"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",
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{
"ref": "(Can we date this quote?), 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.",
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},
{
"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": "quotation"
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{
"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 looking for some clout / I had what they wanted so they always came around",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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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"(informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political."
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"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.’",
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{
"ref": "1985, Brian Daley, Jinx on a Terran Inheritance, page 338",
"text": "One of her goons gave him a clout on the ear.",
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"A blow with the hand."
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"(regional, informal) A blow with the hand."
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"roman": "plesnica",
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"tags": [
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"word": "плесница"
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"word": "klap"
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"sense": "informal: blow with the hand",
"tags": [
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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 ...'",
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"A home run."
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"(baseball, informal) A home run."
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"word": "kunnari"
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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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"sense": "archery: center of the butt",
"word": "pilkka"
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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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"(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth."
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"code": "sq",
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"word": "pelenë"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "parcal",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"tags": [
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"word": "парцал"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"tags": [
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"word": "wikkel"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"tags": [
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"word": "luier"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"word": "kapalo"
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{
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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "swaddling cloth",
"word": "lanjo"
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"code": "enm",
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"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 […]",
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{
"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": "quotation"
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"word": "arnë"
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "parče plat",
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"word": "парче плат"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "lap"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "vod"
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"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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"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.’",
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"ref": "1985, Brian Daley, Jinx on a Terran Inheritance, page 338",
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"ref": "2011 August 17, Michael Vega, “Triple double”, in The Boston Globe, page C1",
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"ref": "1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 33",
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, published 1998, page 57",
"text": "A wizard? Him? How could he possibly be? He'd spent his life being clouted by Dudley, and bullied by Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon; if he was really a wizard, why hadn't they been turned into warty toads every time they'd tried to lock him in his cupboard?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist."
],
"links": [
[
"hit",
"hit#Verb"
],
[
"fist",
"fist#Noun"
]
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1549, Hugh Latimer, “[The Second Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer, which He Preached before the King’s Majesty, within His Grace’s Palace at Westminster, the Fifteenth Day of March, 1549.] To the Reader.”, in George Elwes Corrie, editor, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555 (The Works of Hugh Latimer; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University Press, published 1844, →OCLC, page 110",
"text": "Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in mending an old net, and in clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers what diligence they should use in the expedition of matters.\nThe spelling has been modernized.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout."
],
"links": [
[
"cover",
"cover"
],
[
"bandage",
"bandage"
],
[
"patch",
"patch"
],
[
"mend",
"mend"
]
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole."
],
"links": [
[
"stud",
"stud"
],
[
"timber",
"timber"
],
[
"sole",
"sole"
]
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree."
],
"links": [
[
"guard",
"guard"
],
[
"plate",
"plate"
],
[
"axletree",
"axletree"
]
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1633, Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island",
"text": "if fond Bavius vent his clouted song",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To join or patch clumsily."
],
"links": [
[
"join",
"join"
],
[
"patch",
"patch"
],
[
"clumsily",
"clumsily"
]
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/klaʊt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/klʌʊt/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clout.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-clout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-clout.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "udrjam",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"word": "удрям"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"word": "uhodit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "třísknout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "praštit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "bacit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"word": "slaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"word": "oorvijgen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"word": "lyödä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"word": "schlagen"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "hit, especially with the fist",
"word": "clouten"
}
],
"word": "clout"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English 2-syllable words",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/aʊt",
"Rhymes:English/aʊt/1 syllable",
"enm:Babies",
"enm:Burial",
"enm:Clothing",
"enm:Fabrics"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "clouts",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "clouting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "clouted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "clouted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "clot"
}
],
"categories": [
"English dated forms",
"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": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Dated form of clot."
],
"links": [
[
"clot",
"clot#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"dated"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/klaʊt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/klʌʊt/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clout.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-clout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-clout.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-clout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-clout.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "clout"
}
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