clog en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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.
Meanings
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A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.
2002, Alice Sebold, chapter 5, in The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, page 92:Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
[…] as to the poor—just look at them when they come crowding about the church-doors on the occasion of a marriage or a funeral, clattering in clogs; […]
1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Mr. Donne’s Exodus”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 117:
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A blockage.
The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
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(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs.
1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I, spoken by Withnail:
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A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
Yet as a Dog committed close / For some offence, by chance breaks loose, / And quits his Clog; but all in vain, / He still draws after him his Chain.
1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras. Canto III.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:A clog of lead was round my feet / A band of pain across my brow;
1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Letters”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, page 115:
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That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
The grand Conſpirator, Abbot of Weſtminster, / With clog of Conſcience, and ſowre Melancholly / Hath yeelded up his body to the graue;
1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi], page 45:If we were as rich as your uncle, I should feel it to be both a duty and a pleasure to keep an elegant table; but limited means are a sad clog to one’s wishes.
1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 56, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:By the same rule, they must send your mamma her travelling expences, miss; she can't have the clog of a couple of grown daughters at her heels without money in her pocket.
1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 69–70:All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England, are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Edmund Burke: Esq; one of the representatives in Parliament for the city of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. sheriffs of that city, on the Affairs of America, London: J. Dodsley, page 8:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| clogs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
clog wog · Yule clog · clog dance · clogmaker · pop one's clogs · beclog · clever clogs · shot-clog · clogwood · clogmaking · clogs to clogs in three generations · cloglike · clog almanac · clogless · clogger
Translations (80)
bg пречка (a blockage) · is stífla (a blockage) · bg препятствие (an encumbrance or impediment) · acw قُبْقَاب (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · ru про́бка (a blockage) · it ostruzione (a blockage) · it tappo (a blockage) · it zoccolo (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · it intasamento (a blockage) · mi kūtā (an encumbrance or impediment) · de Holzpantoffel (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · de Holzschuh (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · fr sabot (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · el εμπόδιο (a blockage) · ar قَبْقَاب (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · el ξυλοπάπουτσο (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · de hemmen (a blockage) · cy clocs (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · cmn 屐 (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · mzs chiripo (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · pt entupimento (a blockage) · mzs xiripo (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · ar قُبْقَاب (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · ru сабо́ (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · de Pantine (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · mi kūkā (an encumbrance or impediment) · pdt Kloff (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · bg препятствие (a blockage) · ca esclop (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · he קבקב (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · ca soc (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · sv träsko (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · cmn 阻塞 (a blockage) · fo tufla (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · bg пречка (an encumbrance or impediment) · lv klikata (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · pt bloqueio (a blockage) · nl verstopping (a blockage) · ru препя́тствие (an encumbrance or impediment) · bg налъм (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · es azolvamiento (a blockage) · el τσόκαρο (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · az tutulma (a blockage) · es asolvamiento (a blockage) · gl galocha (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · ga paitín (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · es azolve (a blockage) · pt obstrução (a blockage) · nl klomp (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · fr bouchon (a blockage) · fi puukenkä (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · ja 木靴 (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · cs dřevák (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · ota نعل (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · gl chanca (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · pt tamanco (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · is tréskór (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · nrf riboule (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · enm patyn (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · de verstopfen (a blockage) · hu klumpa (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · grc κλάπαι (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · dsb drjewjanka (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · la sufflamen (a blockage) · la sculpōnea (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · vec sgàlmara (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · de Klotz (an encumbrance or impediment) · is klossi (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · nrf chabot (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · gl zoca (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · gl zamanco (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · la sufflamen (an encumbrance or impediment) · es zueco (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · ko 방해물 (a blockage) · pl drewniak (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · da træsko (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · is hnallur (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · mk кломпа (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel) · ru засо́р (a blockage) · eo lignoŝuo (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel)