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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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stroke

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st???k/
  • (General American) enPR: str?k, IPA(key): /st?o?k/
  • Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English stroke, strok, strak, from Old English str?c (stroke), from Proto-West Germanic *straik (stroke), from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (stroke), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (stroke; to strike). Cognate with Scots strak, strake, straik (stroke, blow), Middle Low German str?k (stroke, trick, prank), German Streich (stroke). In its British sense as a name for the slash ??/??, a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique originally employed in telegraphy.

Alternative forms

  • stroak (obsolete)

Noun

stroke (plural strokes)

  1. An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface).
  2. A blow or hit.
    • His hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree.
    • He likewise entered and won in effect the whole kingdom of Naples itself, without striking stroke.
  3. A single movement with a tool.
    1. (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club. Also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
    2. (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
    3. (rowing) The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull.
    4. (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
    5. A thrust as of a piston or of the penis during sexual intercourse.
    6. An act of striking with a weapon
  4. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
  5. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.
  6. A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly:
    1. (Britain, typography) The slash, /.
    2. (Unicode, typography) The formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in A? and A?).
    3. (linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.
  7. A streak made with a brush.
  8. The time when a clock strikes.
  9. (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
  10. (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
  11. (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
    • 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason
      At this one stroke the man look'd dead in law.
  12. (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
  13. (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
  14. (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
  15. (squash (sport)) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
  16. (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
  17. (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
    • in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound
  18. An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
  19. A throb or beat, as of the heart.
  20. Power; influence.
    • 1551, Ralph Robynson More's Utopia
      where money beareth all the stroke
    • He has a great stroke with the reader.
  21. (obsolete) Appetite.
    • Lady Answ. God bless you, colonel, you have a good stroke with you.
      Col: O, madam, formerly I could eat all, but now I leave nothing; I eat but one meal a day.
  22. In transactional analysis, a (generally positive) reaction to a person, fulfilling their needs or desires.
Synonyms
  • (act of stroking, petting): caress
  • (blow): blow, hit, beat
    • (act of striking with a weapon): blow
  • (single movement with a tool):
    • (in golf):
    • (in tennis):
    • (in rowing):
    • (in cricket): shot
    • (thrust of a piston): push, thrust
  • (made with a pen): stroke of the pen
    • (made with a brush): brushstroke
    • (symbol): See slash and strikethrough
  • (time when a clock strikes): hour
  • (particular style of swimming):
  • (in medical sense): cerebrovascular accident, CVA
  • (in wrestling):
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stroken, straken, from Old English str?cian (to stroke), from Proto-West Germanic *straik?n (to stroke, caress).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian strookje (to stroke; caress), West Frisian streakje (to stroke; caress), German Low German straken, strieken, strakeln, striekeln (to stroke; caress; fondle), German streicheln (to stroke, fondle).

Verb

stroke (third-person singular simple present strokes, present participle stroking, simple past and past participle stroked)

  1. (transitive) To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
    • He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, / He stroked her cheeks.
  2. (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
  3. (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
  4. (transitive, rowing) To row the stroke oar of.
Translations

See also

  • strokes in the medical sense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “stroke”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

  • Kortes, Koster, Stoker, stoker, tokers, trokes

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • sztrók (equally correct since 2015)

Etymology

Borrowed from English stroke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?stro?k] (phonetic respelling: sztrók)
  • Hyphenation: stroke
  • Rhymes: -o?k

Noun

stroke (countable and uncountable, plural stroke-ok)

  1. (medicine) stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted or a particular case of it)
    Synonyms: agyvérzés, (archaic) agyszélh?dés, (folksy) gutaütés, (folksy) szélütés

Declension

References


Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English *str?c, from Proto-West Germanic *straik.

Alternative forms

  • strok, strake, strak, strook, strooke

Pronunciation

  • (Northern ME, Early ME) IPA(key): /str??k/
  • IPA(key): /str??k/

Noun

stroke (plural strokes)

  1. Any striking or hitting motion:
    1. A strike or hit from a weapon or instrument of torture}}
    2. A strike or hit from one's hands or other limbs
    3. A strike or hit from a tool against an object.
  2. The force of death; the origin or effect of one's demise.
  3. (Late Middle English) The feeling of an intense emotion or mood.
  4. (Late Middle English) The process of making a striking or hitting motion.
  5. A loud sound caused by weather (e.g. heavy rain)
  6. The result of a striking or hitting motion; a wound.
  7. (rare) A jerking or pulsing motion (e.g. a heartbeat)
Related terms
  • stroken
Descendants
  • English: stroke
  • Scots: strake, straik, strak
References
  • “str?k(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

Etymology 2

From Old English str?cian, from Proto-West Germanic *straik?n.

Verb

stroke

  1. Alternative form of stroken

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stroke

  1. past participle of stryka

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