clepe
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clepe
- /kliːp/
Rhymes with -iːp
Where it comes from
From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”).
verb clepes · cleping · cleped · clept
- To give a call; cry out; appeal.
- To call; call upon; cry out to.
- To call to oneself; invite; summon.
- To call; call by the name of; name. She clepes him king of graues, & graue for kings, / Imperious ſupreme of all mortall things.
- To tell lies about; inform against (someone). You tried to mentor someone, teach them the basics of the trade, and they ran off to clype on you.
- To be loquacious; tattle; gossip.
- To report; relate; tell.
noun clepes · cleep · clip · clep · claip
- A cry; an appeal; a call. So bold was I to show my voice that night / With clepes, and cries, to fill the street throughout / With Creuse’ name in sorrow, with vain tears ; / And often-sithes the same for to repeat.
