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clag
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
clag (uncountable)
- A glue or paste made from starch.
- Low cloud, fog or smog.
- 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]
- 2001, Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman
- (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 (c.f marbles).
- He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.
Derived terms
- claggy
Verb
clag (third-person singular simple present clags, present participle clagging, simple past and past participle clagged)
- (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
- c1620:Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
- 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.
- 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
Anagrams
- GLAC
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish cloc.
Noun
clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)
- bell
Derived terms
- shamyr chluig, thie cluig (“belfry”)
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish cloc.
Noun
clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)
- bell
Derived terms
- beum-cluig
Mutation
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blag
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from French blague (“joke, tall story”), blaguer (“to joke”), from Old Occitan blagar (“to chat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Verb
blag (third-person singular simple present blags, present participle blagging, simple past and past participle blagged)
- (Britain, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- Synonyms: obtain, sponge; see also Thesaurus:scrounge
- (Britain, informal, specifically) To obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
- Synonym: pretext
- (Polari) To pick up someone.
- (Britain, informal, 1960s) To inveigle by persuasion.
- (Britain, informal, 1940s) To deceive; to perpetrate a hoax on.
Translations
Noun
blag (plural blags)
- (Britain, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
- (Britain criminal slang) An armed robbery.
- 2014, Echo Freer, Diamond Geezers
- I know your old man's keen for you to learn the ropes an' all that, but let's not forget who's running this blag, shall we?
- 2014, Echo Freer, Diamond Geezers
Adjective
blag (comparative more blag, superlative most blag)
- (Britain, informal) Fake, not genuine.
- Synonym: fake
Derived terms
- blagger
Translations
Etymology 2
First attested in xkcd: "Mispronouncing".
Noun
blag (plural blags)
- (humorous) Misspelling of blog. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Etymology 3
Tagalog blag
Interjection
blag
- (Philippines) An onomatopoeia for the sound of a falling strike. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Further reading
- blag at The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary
References
Anagrams
- Glab
Antillean Creole
Etymology
From French blague.
Noun
blag
- joke
German Low German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bl??x/, /bl??x/ (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)
Adjective
blag
- Alternative spelling of blaag
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *bolg?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blâ??/
Adjective
bl?g (definite bl?g?, comparative bl?ž?, Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- mild, gentle, soft
- (intensifier, colloquial) any, damn, faintest
Declension
Related terms
- blagost
Derived terms
Further reading
- “blag” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *bolg?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blá?k/
Adjective
bl?g (comparative blážji or bl?žji, superlative n?jblážji or n?jbl?žji)
- mild, gentle, soft
Further reading
- “blag”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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