Flagged vs Clagged - What's the difference?
flagged | clagged |
(flag)
Paved with flagstones.
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(clag)
A glue or paste made from starch.
Low cloud, fog or smog.
* 1993: Harry Furniss, Memoirs - One: The Flying Game
* 2001: Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman
* 2004: David A Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An Autobiography
(Railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
(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.
(obsolete) To encumber
* c1620: Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
* 1725: Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations
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
As verbs the difference between flagged and clagged
is that flagged is past tense of flag while clagged is past tense of clag.As an adjective flagged
is paved with flagstones.flagged
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- Titus moved his dry tongue across his lips and sat down on the flagged floor, but a sense of terror jerked him to his feet again.
clagged
English
Verb
(head)clag
English
Noun
(-)- The sky was thick with dirty gray clag
- 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.]
- We went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity [a footnote defines clag'' as ''low cloud cover ]
- He put the throttle on full and the loco clagged.
- He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.
Derived terms
* snaggyVerb
- As when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruite
- Can such draw to me/My stund affections all with Cinders clag'd
- 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.