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Flagged vs Clagged - What's the difference?

flagged | clagged |

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)
  • (flag)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Paved with flagstones.
  • *
    • 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)

    • 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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