Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

clog

/klɑɡ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.99 in modern English

Syllables: clog
IPA: /klɑɡ/

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

noun

noun

A shoe of any type.

British usage; Colloquial

noun

A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.

noun

That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

verb

To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').

verb

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

verb

To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

Example Sentences

"Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days."
"[…] as to the poor—just look at them when they come crowding about the church-doors on the occasion of a marriage or a funeral, clattering in clogs; […]"
"She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house."
"The plumber cleared the clog from the drain."
"I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs."
"Yet as a Dog committed close / For some offence, by chance breaks loose, / And quits his Clog; but all in vain, / He still draws after him his Chain."

Etymology

Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”). Perhaps of North Germanic origin and derived from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“lump, mass, clasp”); compare Old Norse klugu, klogo (“knotty tree log”), Dutch klomp.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: clog, -, *klumpô, klugu

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /klɑɡ/
British English: /klɒɡ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

clogs (plural) clogs (present, singular) clogging (participle, present) clogged (participle, past) clogged (past)

Derived Forms

beclog clogger clogless cloglike clogmaker clogmaking clogwood anticlog cloggable cloggy clogosphere declog

Phrases

clever clogs clog almanac clog dance clogs to clogs in three generations clog wog pop one's clogs shot-clog Yule clog

Synonyms

clog dance clog dancing geta patten sabot overload clot constipate

Rhymes With

fog frog og prague hog bog jog hogg smog slog rog flog

Questions

How do you pronounce clog?: The recorded pronunciation is /klɑɡ/.
What does clog mean?: A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
Where does clog come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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