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black_clock, blackclock, black-clock, bumclock, bum-clock, clo$k, cloack, cloak, cloaker, clock, clock_leddy, clocker, clockie, clockleddy, clock-leddy, clok, cloke, hointiclock, honnclock, honnklokk, hundiclock, kloak, kloaker, klock, klok, klokk, witchie-clock, witchie-klokk,
clock [klɔk, klok]
also clocker
n. A beetle.
dim. clockie
Compounds and phrases etc.
black-clock: The cockroach Blatta orientalis.
bumclock: A humming beetle, a flying beetle.
clock leddy: A ladybird.
hundiclock: I.Sh. A (horned) beetle.
witchie-clock: I.Sh. A species of burrowing beetle, a carabid.
clack, clawk, cloack, cloak, clock, clok, cloke, doon-head, doon-heid-clock, doun-heid-clock, klokk,
clock [klɔk, klok]
n. A clock. MN. The moschatel Adoxa moschatellina.
Compounds and phrases etc.
doun-heid-clock: The seed head of the dandelion Taraxacum officinale.
roond o the clock: A full twelve hours.
wee-toun-clock: WC. The moschatel Adoxa moschatellina.
claud, claudit, clod, cloddan, cloddans, clodded, cloddie, cloddin, cloddit, clud, cluddit, klod, stane-clod,
clod [klɔd, klod]
n. A clod of earth, a sod, a peat, a wheaten loaf.
dim. cloddie
v. To pelt with missiles, throw, free land of clods and stones, pile up peats.
pt. pp. cloddit
Compounds and phrases etc.
cloddin: SW. A loose pile of stones on land.: U. To pelt with missiles.
stane-clod: A stone's throw.
clog, cloggie, clog-ruit, clug, klog,
clog [klɔg, klog, klʌg]
n. A log of wood, a wooden shoe.
dim. cloggie
Compounds and phrases etc.
clog-ruit: The exposed root of a tree or bush.
clood, cloodie, cloods, cloody, clud, cluddie, cluddy, cluds,
clood [klud]
also clud [klʌd]
n. A cloud in the sky, a cloud of smoke or dust, a multitude of birds or insects. A wide scarf.
pl. cloods, cluds
v. To cloud.
cloody [ˈkludɪ]
also cluddy [ˈklʌdɪ]
adj. Cloudy.
cleush, cloose, clooss, clous, clouss, clow, cluse,
cloose [klus]
n. A sluice.
pl. clooses
cloot, clooter, clootie, clootie_wall, clootie_well, clootit, cloots, clooty, clout, clouter, cloutie, cloutit, clouts, clowt, clowter, clowtit, clowts, clute, clutes, clutty, kloot,
cloot [klut, klʌut]
n. A piece of cloth, a rag, dishcloth, duster, nappy, a patch. A blow, strike, slap,
dim. clootie
pl. cloots
v. To mend or patch clothes, shoes, pots, cauldrons etc. To clothe. To strike, slap.
pt. pp. clootit adj. Patched.
clootie
adj. Made of cloths or rags.
Compounds and phrases etc.
clooter [-ər]: A patcher, cobbler.
clootie wall: A wishing well where rags are hung in the bushes.
haund cloot: A towel.
clairach, claroch, cleerich, cleurach, clorach, cloroch,
clorach [ˈklɔrəx, ˈkle(ː)rəx, ˈkl(j)uːrəx, MN. ˈkliːrəx, ˈklarəx]
v. To clear the throat noisily.
claise, claiser, clase, clased, claser, clasest, classer, cloase-han$t, clös, close, close, closed, close-haundit, closen, closen-in, closer, closest, closs, closser, cloze, clozer, kloze,
close [v. kloːz, adj. & adv. klos, klɔs]
adj. Close, choked up, constant.
comp. closer
superl. closest
adv. Constantly.
v. To close. To have the respiratory organs in a state of congestion.
pt. pp. closed [kloːzd]
Compounds and phrases etc.
closer [kloːzər]: An argument which shuts one up.
closur: Closure.
close-haundit: Mean, tight fisted.
closen-in: Closed-in.
close, closie, closs, clossie,
close [klos, klɔs]
n. A courtyard, an enclosed space adjoining a house. A farmyard, the yard round which the farm-buildings are arranged. The passageway leading into a courtyard, any narrow passage or alley. A narrow street. The entry to a tenement house, the open passage-way giving access to the common stairs and the floors above. MN. a bed recess.
dim. closie DD. The stairwell in a block of flats.
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