clog
English
/klɒɡ/, /klɑɡ/
noun
Definitions
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English clog (weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement) derived from Old Norse klugu.
Origin
Old Norse
klugu
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticlog English
- beclog English
- cloggable English
- clogger English
- clogginess English
- cloggy English
- clogless English
- cloglike English
- clogosphere English
- declog English
- declogger English
- reclog English
- shot English
- shot-clog English
- unclog English
- uncloggable English
- unclogger English
- clog Middle English
- klugu Old Norse