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flouting

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?fla?t??/
    • (US) IPA(key): [?fla?????]

Verb

flouting

  1. present participle of flout

Noun

flouting (plural floutings)

  1. The act by which something is flouted.

Anagrams

  • fling out, infoglut, outfling

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clouting

English

Etymology

From Middle English clouting; equivalent to clout +? -ing.

Verb

clouting

  1. present participle of clout

Noun

clouting (countable and uncountable, plural cloutings)

  1. The act of giving a clout, or striking somebody.
    • 1969, The Educational Magazine (volume 26, page 163)
      And many readers could provide me with tales of rulers across knuckles, slaps on bare legs, heads cracked together, and mighty ear-cloutings.
  2. A light plain cloth used for covering butter and farmer's baskets, and for dish and pudding cloths. The same term is often given to light cloths of the nursery diaper pattern.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • cloutinge, clowtynge

Etymology

From clout +? -ing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?klu?tin?/

Noun

clouting

  1. patching, fixing
  2. adulteration (adding in error)
  3. (rare) alleviation

Descendants

  • English: clouting

References

  • “cl?uting, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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