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rattlebrain
English
Etymology
rattle +? brain
Noun
rattlebrain (plural rattlebrains)
- A rattlebrained person.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [1]
- a genial young fellow enough to look at, and something of a rattlebrain, to all appearance.
- 1962, Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Slave, translated by Isaac Bachevis Singer and Cecil Hemley, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985, Part III, p. 297,
- My mother, peace be with her, when she called me a rattlebrain, was right.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [1]
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clot
English
Alternative forms
- clout (dated)
Etymology
From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
clot (plural clots)
- A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
- A solidified mass of any liquid.
- A silly person.
Derived terms
- clotty
Translations
Verb
clot (third-person singular simple present clots, present participle clotting, simple past and past participle clotted)
- (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
- (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.
Translations
Anagrams
- Colt, TLOC, colt
Catalan
Etymology
Of uncertain, perhaps Indo-European but pre-Roman origin.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?kl?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
clot m (plural clots)
- pit, hole
- dip (a lower section of a road or geological feature)
Derived terms
- clota
- clotada
- clotós
Further reading
- “clot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- clotte
Etymology
From Old English clot, clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott; compare clod.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?t/
Noun
clot (plural clottes)
- A clod; a ball of earth or clay.
- The ground; the earth's surface.
- (figuratively) The body.
- (rare) A chunk of turf or soil.
Descendants
- English: clot
References
- “clot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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