Clog vs Befoul - What's the difference?
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A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
A blockage.
(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
* 1987 , :
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
* Hudibras
* Tennyson
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
* Burke
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
* Dryden
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
* Addison
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between clog and befoul
is that clog is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up') while befoul is to make foul; to soil.As a noun clog
is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.clog
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia clog)- Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
- The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
- Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
- As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
- A clog of lead was round my feet.
- 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.
Derived terms
* clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogsVerb
- Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
- The roads are clogged up with traffic.
- The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
- The commodities are clogged with impositions.
- You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.