English Explanatory Dictionary

clog

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
  2. A blockage.
  3. 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.
verb
  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. To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
  5. To perform a clog dance.

Pronunciation

/klɒɡ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clog.wav /klɑɡ/ /klɔɡ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-clog.wav

Word forms

clog clogs clogging clogged

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.

Derived words

beclog clever clogs clog almanac clog dance clogless cloglike clogmaker clogmaking clogs to clogs in three generations clog wog clogwood pop one's clogs shot-clog Yule clog clogger anticlog cloggable cloggy clogosphere clog up declog nonclogging reclog unclog uncloggable
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