clog
UK /klɒɡ/ · US /klɑɡ/ noun, verb
- noun A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel. “Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.”
- noun A blockage. “The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.”
- noun (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- 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'). “Hair is clogging the drainpipe.”
- verb To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- verb To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- verb (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- verb (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
Synonyms
geta patten sabot clog dance clog dancing choke off clog up back up congest choke foul constipate clot overload
Antonyms
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
- noun A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
- verb To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- verb To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
Etymology [OE. clogge clog, Scot. clag, n., a clot, v., to to obstruct, cover with mud or anything adhesive; prob. of the same origin as E. clay.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “clog”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details