clag

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English

Etymology

From Middle English claggen, probably of Scandinavian origin. Compare Swedish klägg and Old English clǣġ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klæɡ/
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  • Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

clag (uncountable)

  1. A glue or paste made from starch.
  2. Low cloud, fog or smog.
    • 1993, Harry Furniss, Memoirs - One: The Flying Game:
      The sky was thick with dirty gray clag
    • 2001, Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman:
      This programme included practice interceptions, simulator training, day flying, night flying, clag flying -- in addition to […] [a footnote states that clag flying was Air Force slang for foul weather flying.]
    • 2004, David A. Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An Autobiography:
      We went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity [a footnote defines clag as low cloud cover]
  3. (railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
  4. (motor racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (cf. marbles).
    He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.

Derived terms

Verb

clag (third-person singular simple present clags, present participle clagging, simple past and past participle clagged)

  1. (obsolete) To encumber
    • c. 1620, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria:
      As when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruite
    • 1725, Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations:
      Can such draw to me/My stund affections all with Cinders clag'd
  2. To stick, like boots in mud
    • 1999: "A queen of a Santee kitchen, pre-war", quoted by Mary Alston Read Simms in the Introduction to Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909
      Wash the rice well in two waters, if you don't wash 'em, 'e will clag and put 'em in a pot of well-salted boiling water.

Anagrams

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cloc.

Noun

clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)

  1. bell

Derived terms

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
clag chlag glag
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cloc.

Noun

clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)

  1. bell

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
clag chlag
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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