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clout

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kla?t/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /kl??t/
  • Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English clout, from Old English cl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (to ball up, amass). Cognate with Old Norse klútr (kerchief), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German kl?z (lump), whence German Kloß, and dialect Russian ????? (gluda). See also cleat. The sense “influence, especially political” originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.

Noun

clout (countable and uncountable, plural clouts)

  1. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
  2. (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
    • 1910, Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding
      ‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’
  3. (baseball, informal) A home run.
    • 2011, Michael Vega, "Triple double", in The Boston Globe, August 17, 2011, p. C1.
      '... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'
  4. (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
    • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 1,[4]
      A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.
  5. (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
  6. (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 9, p. 129,[5]
      His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;
    • c. 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2,[6]
      [] a clout upon that head
      Where late the diadem stood []
    • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 74,[7]
      We condol’d with each other, and observ’d how wretchedly we look’d, all naked, except a small Clout about our Middles []
  7. (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
  8. (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
    • c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,” lines 707-709, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 2, p. 339,[8]
      And whan sche of this bille hath taken heede, / Sche rente it al to cloutes atte laste / And into the privy softely it caste.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)

  1. To hit, especially with the fist.
  2. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
    • 15 March, 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before the King's Majesty at Westminster
      Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in [] clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.
  3. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
  4. To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
  5. To join or patch clumsily.
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)

  1. Dated form of clot.
    • 1948, The Essex Review
      He tells us how to butter eggs, boil eels, clout cream, stew capons, how to make a fine cake, an almond pudding and a raspberry conserve, []

References


Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cl?t, from Proto-West Germanic *kl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz. Compare cloud.

Alternative forms

  • clowt, cloute, clowte, clowtt

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klu?t/

Noun

clout (plural cloutes)

  1. A (smaller) piece of fabric; a shred:
    1. A patch (fabric for mending).
    2. A bandage or dressing (for wounds)
    3. rag, tatter (piece of clothing)
  2. A (larger) piece of fabric; a cloth:
    1. Threadbare or inferior clothing.
    2. Cloth for wrapping babies; swaddling clothes.
    3. A burial shroud.
  3. A washer; a round metal panel.
  4. A fragment or shred.
  5. A strike, blow or hit.
Related terms
  • clouten
  • clouting
  • clowter
Descendants
  • English: clout
  • Scots: clout, cloot
References
  • “cl?ut, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  • “cl?ut, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

clout

  1. Alternative form of clouten

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poke

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /p??k/
  • (US) enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /po?k/
  • Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Middle English, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken (both from Proto-Germanic *puk-), which is probably imitative.

Verb

poke (third-person singular simple present pokes, present participle poking, simple past and past participle poked)

  1. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. [from later 14th c.]
  2. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
  3. (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around. [from early 19th c.]
  4. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
  5. (transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
  6. (transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
  7. (transitive, informal, Internet) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
  8. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
  9. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
Synonyms
  • (rummage): fumble, glaum, root; see also Thesaurus:feel around
  • (penetrate in sexual intercourse): drill, nail, pound; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

poke (plural pokes)

  1. A prod, jab, or thrust.
  2. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
  3. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
  4. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
  5. (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
  6. (informal, Internet) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
  7. A poke bonnet.
Derived terms
  • better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

Etymology 2

From Middle English poke, from Anglo-Norman poke (whence pocket), from Frankish *poka. More at pocket.

Noun

poke (plural pokes)

  1. (now regional) A sack or bag. [from early 13th c.]
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7:
      And then he drew a dial from his poke,
      And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
      Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock…’
    • 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276:
      When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke.
    • 1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia:
      And suddainly vntyes the Poke,
      Which out of it sent such a smoke,
      As ready was them all to choke,
      So greeuous was the pother []
    • 1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573:
      … and as to shape, a nightmare has as much. Under the poke and the muff-box, the face sometimes entirely disappears …
    • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 91:
      In the summertime they'd reach out and snatch your straw hat right off your head, and if you were fool enough to go after it your poke was bound to be lighter when you came out.
    • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138:
      She did not eat blood-oranges. Her maw gived her one in a poke and she was going to throw it in the bin, Oh it is all black.
  2. A long, wide sleeve.
    Synonym: poke sleeve
  3. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Either a shortening of, or from the same source as, pocan (pokeweed) (q.v.).

Noun

poke (uncountable)

  1. (dialectal) pokeweed

Synonyms

  • see the list at pokeweed
Translations

Etymology 4

From Hawaiian poke (slice crossways)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?po?.ke?/

Noun

poke (uncountable)

  1. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.

Usage notes

Often typeset as poké to aid pronunciation.

Anagrams

  • kepo

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?poke/, [?po?ke?]
  • Rhymes: -oke
  • Syllabification: po?ke

Etymology 1

From portsari (doorman).

Noun

poke

  1. (slang) doorman, bouncer (at a bar or nightclub)
Declension

Etymology 2

From porno (pornography).

Noun

poke

  1. (slang) pornography
Declension

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?poke/

Adverb

poke

  1. slightly

Maori

Adjective

poke

  1. grimy

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • pok, poc, puke

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman poke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p??k(?)/

Noun

poke (plural pokes)

  1. sack, pouch, bag

Descendants

  • English: poke
  • Yola: poake, pooke

References

  • “p?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Alternative forms

  • poque, pouche, puche

Etymology

From Frankish *poka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?.k?/

Noun

poke f (oblique plural pokes, nominative singular poke, nominative plural pokes)

  1. sack
    E puis les poudrez bien de sel e les mettez ensemble en une poke de bon kanevaz

Derived terms

  • poket

Descendants

  • ? Middle English: poc, poke, pooke
    • English: poke (regional)
    • Scots: pok, poke, polk, poik

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *pokowjä-, earlier *p?kewjä-, from pre-Tocharian *b?eh???ow-h?en- (definite), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh???ús (arm). Compare Tocharian B pokai.

Noun

poke

  1. arm

References

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) , “poko*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ?ISBN, page 434

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