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All 5 letters words made out of clepe

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Definitions and meaning of clepe

clepe

English

Alternative forms

• cleep, clip
• clep, clip, claip, clype (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kliːp/
• Rhymes: -iːp

Verb

clepe (third-person singular simple present clepes, present participle cleping, simple past cleped or clept, past participle cleped or clept or yclept)

1. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To give a call; cry out; appeal.
2. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call upon; cry out to.
3. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call to oneself; invite; summon.
4. (transitive, archaic or dialectal) To call; call by the name of; name.
5. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal, often with 'on') To tell lies about; inform against (someone).
6. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be loquacious; tattle; gossip.
7. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To report; relate; tell.

Usage notes

The verb is obsolete, except in certain dialects or when used in the past participle yclept which is sometimes used as a deliberate archaism, or as an idiomatic set phrase: aptly yclept.

Synonyms

• (call by the name of): designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (tell lies about; inform against): grass, snitch; see also Thesaurus:rat out
• (be loquacious; tattle; gossip): blab; see also Thesaurus:gossip or Thesaurus:chatter

Derived terms

• beclepe

Noun

clepe (plural clepes)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A cry; an appeal; a call.

Anagrams

• cleep

Latin

Verb

clepe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of clepō

Middle English

Verb

clepe

1. Alternative form of clepen

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French crêpe. Doublet of crespo.

Noun

clepe m (plural clepes)

1. (Louisiana) crepe

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English clepen, from Old English clipian, from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kliːp/

Verb

clepe (past participle ee-clepèd)

1. to call, to name

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 30