"clouter" meaning in English

See clouter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: clouters [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English clowter; equivalent to clout + -er. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|clowter}} Middle English clowter, {{suffix|en|clout|er|id2=agent noun}} clout + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} clouter (plural clouters)
  1. One who clouts or strikes.
    Sense id: en-clouter-en-noun-AFBJ5nYn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 2 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 45 4 51
  2. (slang) A thief. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-clouter-en-noun-rDjwVIAZ
  3. (obsolete) One who patches clothes. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-clouter-en-noun-P8Jhskvo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 2 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 45 4 51

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for clouter meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "clowter"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English clowter",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "clout",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "clout + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English clowter; equivalent to clout + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clouters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clouter (plural clouters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "48 2 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 4 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who clouts or strikes."
      ],
      "id": "en-clouter-en-noun-AFBJ5nYn",
      "links": [
        [
          "clout",
          "clout"
        ],
        [
          "strike",
          "strike"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A thief."
      ],
      "id": "en-clouter-en-noun-rDjwVIAZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "thief",
          "thief"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A thief."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "48 2 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 4 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who patches clothes."
      ],
      "id": "en-clouter-en-noun-P8Jhskvo",
      "links": [
        [
          "patches",
          "patches"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) One who patches clothes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clouter"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "clowter"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English clowter",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "clout",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "clout + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English clowter; equivalent to clout + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clouters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clouter (plural clouters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who clouts or strikes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clout",
          "clout"
        ],
        [
          "strike",
          "strike"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A thief."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thief",
          "thief"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A thief."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who patches clothes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "patches",
          "patches"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) One who patches clothes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clouter"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.