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All 4 letters words made out of clog

clog lcog colg oclg locg olcg clgo lcgo cglo gclo lgco glco cogl ocgl cgol gcol ogcl gocl logc olgc lgoc gloc oglc golc

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Definitions and meaning of clog

clog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /klɒɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /klɑɡ/, /klɔɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

clog (plural clogs)

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

3. (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

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Verb

clog (third-person singular simple present clogs, present participle clogging, simple past and past participle clogged)

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

2. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
4. (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
   • 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.

     For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable ^[sic] as against public policy.

5. (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.

Derived terms

• anticlog
• cloggable
• cloggy
• clog up
• declog
• nonclogging
• unclog
• uncloggable

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Anagrams

• G-LOC

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cloc, from Old Irish cloc, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”). Doublet of clóca.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠɔɡ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /klˠɔɡ/, /kl̪ˠɔɡ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /klˠʌɡ/, /kl̪ˠʌɡ/

Noun

clog m (genitive singular cloig, nominative plural cloig)

1. bell
2. clock
3. blowball, clock (of dandelion)
4. blister

Declension

• Alternative plural: cloganna (Cois Fharraige)

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Verb

clog (present analytic clogann, future analytic clogfaidh, verbal noun clogadh, past participle clogtha)

1. (intransitive) ring a bell
2. (transitive) stun with noise
3. (intransitive) blister

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Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “clog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 150
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “clogaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 151
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *klog, from Proto-Celtic *klukā. Cognate with Irish cloch, Scottish Gaelic clach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kloːɡ/
• Rhymes: -oːɡ

Noun

clog f (plural clogau)

1. cliff, rockface

Derived terms

• clogwyn (“cliff”)
• penglog (“skull”)

Related terms

• clegyr (“rock, crag”)

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