clout
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
clout
- Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
- (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
- 1910, Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding
- ‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’
- 1910, Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding
- (baseball, informal) A home run.
- 2011, Michael Vega, "Triple double", in The Boston Globe, August 17, 2011, p. C1.
- '... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'
- 2011, Michael Vega, "Triple double", in The Boston Globe, August 17, 2011, p. C1.
- (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 1,
- A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 1,
- (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
- (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 9, p. 129,
- His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;
- c. 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2,
- […] a clout upon that head
- Where late the diadem stood […]
- 1743, Robert Drury (sailor), The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 74,
- We condol’d with each other, and observ’d how wretchedly we look’d, all naked, except a small Clout about our Middles […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 9, p. 129,
- (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
- (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,” lines 707-709, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 2, p. 339,
- And whan sche of this bille hath taken heede, / Sche rente it al to cloutes atte laste / And into the privy softely it caste.
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,” lines 707-709, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 2, p. 339,
- French: influence
- German: Einfluss, Gewicht, Durchsetzungskraft
- Russian: влия́ние
- Spanish: influencia, influjo
- German: Kopfnuss
- Russian: уда́р
- Spanish: mamporro
clout (clouts, present participle clouting; past and past participle clouted)
- To hit, especially with the fist.
- To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
- Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in […] clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.
- To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
- To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
- To join or patch clumsily.
- if fond Bavius vent his clouted song
clout (clouts, present participle clouting; past and past participle clouted)
- Dated form of clot#English|clot.
- 1948, The Essex Review
- He tells us how to butter eggs, boil eels, clout cream, stew capons, how to make a fine cake, an almond pudding and a raspberry conserve, […]
- 1948, The Essex Review
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