different between clag vs cag

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

clag (uncountable)

1. A glue or paste made from starch.
2. 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]

3. (railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
4. (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)

1. (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

2. 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.

Anagrams

• GLAC

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cloc.

Noun

clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)

1. bell

Derived terms

• shamyr chluig, thie cluig (“belfry”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cloc.

Noun

clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)

1. bell

Derived terms

• beum-cluig

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English kag, of North Germanic origin, related to Old Norse kaggi, Swedish kagge.

Noun

cag (plural cags)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) keg

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

cag (plural cags)

1. (Britain, informal) Short for cagoule.

Etymology 3

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kagô. Cognate with dialectal German Kag (“cabbage stalk, stump”), Swedish kage (“treestump”). Possibly from the same root as Old Norse kaggi.

Noun

cag (plural cags)

1. (dialectal) A projecting piece left on a tree or shrub when a branch is severed; knob; stump.

References

Anagrams

• ACG, AGC, CGA, gac

Mapudungun

Alternative forms

• chang (Using Unified Alphabet)

Noun

cag (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (anatomy) leg
2. (anatomy) thigh
3. hook

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Somali

Noun

cag ?

1. foot

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ca???/

Noun

cag

1. root.

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary?^[1], SEAP Publications, ?ISBN.

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *???k? (“rope; cord”). Cognate with Thai ????? (ch???ak), Lao ????? (s??ak), Lü ???? (tsoek), Tai Dam ???, Shan ?????? (ts?ek), Tai Nüa ??? (tsoek), Ahom ???????????????????? (chuek), Nong Zhuang zowg.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?a?k?/
• Tone numbers: cag⁸
• Hyphenation: cag

Noun

cag (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography cag)

1. rope; string; cord

   Synonym: (dialectal) cieg

Derived terms

• bengcag