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Clog vs Cleg - What's the difference?

clog | cleg |

As nouns the difference between clog and cleg

is that clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel while cleg is a light breeze.

As a verb clog

is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up').

clog

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia clog)
  • A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
    • Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
  • A blockage.
    • The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
  • (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
  • * 1987 , :
    • Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
  • A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  • * Hudibras
    • As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
  • * Tennyson
    • A clog of lead was round my feet.
  • That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
  • * Burke
    • 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 clogs

    Verb

  • To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
    • Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
    The roads are clogged up with traffic.
  • To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  • * Dryden
    • The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
  • To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • * Addison
    • The commodities are clogged with impositions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.

    cleg

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gleg

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light breeze.
  • A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
  • * 1657 , , Diary , I,
    • Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg , and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum .
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 39,
    • Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs' and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the ' glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.
  • * 1998 , V. K. Riabitsev, Once Season in the Taiga , page 138,
    • The clegs' continue to swarm all around. I wonder how many there are.Remaining seated on the block, I seize ' clegs out of the surrounding air at random, and with scissors cut out a tiny triangle from the rear edge of each one's right wing before releasing it.
  • * 2007 , John T. Wright, An Evacuee's Story: A North Yorkshire Family in Wartime , page 361,
    • Cattle were grazing languidly on the lush grass and flicking their tails to keep away the clegs that constantly plagued them and, having recently suffered a nasty bite from one, I was wary of them myself.
  • * 2011 , Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath , page 49,
    • Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for.

    Synonyms

    * (blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae) blind-fly (Central Africa), deer fly (genus Chrysops), gadfly, horsefly, tabanid

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