Jostle vs Clout - What's the difference?
jostle | clout | Related terms |
(ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
* Macaulay
* I. Taylor
To move through by pushing and shoving.
To be close to or in physical contact with.
To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
(dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
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(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
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(informal) A home run.
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(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
* Shakespeare
(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
* Spenser
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(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
* 1866 , , A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 546.
(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
To hit, especially with the fist.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.
* Latimer
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To join or patch clumsily.
* P. Fletcher
Jostle is a related term of clout.
As verbs the difference between jostle and clout
is that jostle is (ambitransitive) to bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside while clout is to hit, especially with the fist.As nouns the difference between jostle and clout
is that jostle is an experience in which jostling occurs while clout is influence or effectiveness, especially political.jostle
English
Verb
(jostl)- Bullies jostled him.
- Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
clout
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The chopped mushrooms add depth to both the Waitrose and the Go-Go Vegan recipe, but what gives the latter some real clout on the flavour front is a teaspoon of Marmite. Vegetarian tweeter Jessica Edmonds tells me her boyfriend likes a similar recipe because "it tastes of Twiglets!". I'm with him – frankly, what's Christmas without a Twiglet? – but Annie Bell's goat's cheese has given me an idea for something even more festive. Stilton works brilliantly with parsnips, providing a savoury richness which feels a little more special than common or garden yeast extract. Blue cheese calls to mind the chestnuts used by Mary Berry of course, and now I'm on a roll, I pop in some sage and onion too, in a nod to the classic festive stuffing. }}
- 'Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.'
- '... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'
- A' must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout .
- His garments, nought but many ragged clouts , / With thorns together pinned and patched was.
- a clout upon that head where late the diadem stood
- Clouts were thin and flat pieces of iron, used it appears to strengthen the box of the wheel; perhaps also for nailing on such other parts of the cart as were particularly exposed to wear.
- (Chaucer)
Derived terms
* breech-clout * clout list * clout-nail * ne'er cast a clout til May be outVerb
(en verb)- Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.
- if fond Bavius vent his clouted song
