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Blagged vs Clagged - What's the difference?

blagged | clagged |

As verbs the difference between blagged and clagged

is that blagged is past tense of blag while clagged is past tense of clag.

blagged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (blag)

    • blag

    English

    Verb

    (blagg)
  • (British, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
  • (British, informal) More specifically, to obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
    • The newspaper is accused of blagging details of Gordon Brown's flat purchase from his solicitors.
  • (British, informal, transitive) To beg, to cadge.
    • Can I blag a fag?
  • (UK, informal, transitive) To steal.
  • (Polari) To pick up someone.
  • To persuade.
    • He's blagged his way into many a party.
  • To deceive, to perpetrate a hoax on.

    • Synonyms

    * pretext

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
    • A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.
  • An armed robbery.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British, informal) Fake, not genuine.
    • You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!

    Derived terms

    * blagger, Blagger

    External links

    * blag] at [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary ----

    clagged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clag)

    • clag

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A glue or paste made from starch.
  • Low cloud, fog or smog.
  • * 1993: Harry Furniss, Memoirs - One: The Flying Game
    • The sky was thick with dirty gray clag
  • * 2001: Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman
    • This programme included practice interceptions, simulator training, day flying, night flying, clag flying -- in addition to... [a footnote states that clag flying was Air Force slang for foul weather flying.]
  • * 2004: David A Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An Autobiography
    • We went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity [a footnote defines clag'' as ''low cloud cover ]
  • (Railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
    • He put the throttle on full and the loco clagged.
  • (Motor Racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners.
    • He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.

    Derived terms

    * snaggy

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To encumber
  • * c1620: Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
    • As when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruite
  • * 1725: Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations
    • Can such draw to me/My stund affections all with Cinders clag'd
  • To stick, like boots in mud
  • * 1999: "A queen of a Santee kitchen, pre-war", quoted by Mary Alston Read Simms in the Introduction to Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909
    • Wash the rice well in two waters, if you don't wash 'em, 'e will clag [clag means get sticky] and put 'em in a pot of well-salted boiling water.

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