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superfluity
English
Etymology
superflu(ous) +? -ity, Old French superfluite, from Medieval Latin superfluitas, from Latin superfluus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?su?.p??flu?.?.ti/
Noun
superfluity (countable and uncountable, plural superfluities)
- The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness.
- Antonym: necessity
- Something superfluous, as a luxury.
- Antonym: necessity
- (rare) Collective noun for a group of nuns.
- 1905, Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds, Macmillan and Co, (1905), page 266:
- These probably mark the dwelling of a colony, or to speak more precisely, according to Dame Juliana Berners, a superfluity of nuns from Godstow, which nunnery had a cell there, and was patron of the living.
- 2011, Sam Cullen, The Odd Bunnies, unnumbered page:
- Alice put Anna back on the shelf and turned up the volume on the TV, where a local news reporter was imparting a salutary tale of woe involving a superfluity of nuns who'd got into a scrape at a crab festival.
- 2012, Beth Yarnall, Rush, Crimson Romance (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- […] That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.”
- 1905, Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds, Macmillan and Co, (1905), page 266:
Translations
Further reading
- superfluity at OneLook Dictionary Search
superfluity From the web:
clog
English
Etymology
Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”). Perhaps of North Germanic origin; compare Old Norse klugu, klogo (“knotty tree log”), Dutch klomp.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kl??/
- (US) IPA(key): /kl??/, /kl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
clog (plural clogs)
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- 2002, Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, Chapter 5, p. 92,[1]
- She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.
- 2002, Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, Chapter 5, p. 92,[1]
- A blockage.
- (Britain, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Letters” in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 115,[2]
- A clog of lead was round my feet / A band of pain across my brow;
- 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Letters” in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 115,[2]
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
- 1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Edmund Burke: Esq; one of the representatives in Parliament for the city of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. sheriffs of that city, on the Affairs of America, London: J. Dodsley, p. 8,[3]
- All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England, are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
- 1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Edmund Burke: Esq; one of the representatives in Parliament for the city of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. sheriffs of that city, on the Affairs of America, London: J. Dodsley, p. 8,[3]
Derived terms
- clever clogs
- clog dance
- clogless
- cloglike
- clogs to clogs in three generations
- pop one's clogs
- shot-clog
Translations
Verb
clog (third-person singular simple present clogs, present participle clogging, simple past and past participle clogged)
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- The commodities […] are clogged with impositions.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.
- For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable [sic] as against public policy.
- 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
Derived terms
- anticlog
- cloggable
- cloggy
- clog up
- declog
- nonclogging
- unclog
- uncloggable
Translations
References
Anagrams
- G-LOC
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cloc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl???/
Noun
clog m (genitive singular cloig, nominative plural cloig)
- bell
- clock
- blowball, clock (of dandelion)
- blister
Declension
- Alternative plural: cloganna (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms
Verb
clog (present analytic clogann, future analytic clogfaidh, verbal noun clogadh, past participle clogtha)
- (intransitive) ring a bell
- (transitive) stun with noise
- (intransitive) blister
Conjugation
Mutation
References
- "clog" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “clog” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 150.
- “clogaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 151.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *klog, from Proto-Celtic *kluk?. Cognate with Irish cloch, Scottish Gaelic clach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klo??/
Noun
clog f (plural clogau)
- cliff, rockface
Related terms
- clegyr (“rock, crag”)
Mutation
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