clot
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clot
- /klɒt/ UK
- /klɔt/ British, Southern, Standard
- /klɑt/ US, dialectal
- /klɒt/ Canada, dialectal
- /klɔt/ Boston, Pennsylvania, Western
- /klɔt/ Australia
- /klɒt/ New Zealand
- /klɔ̟t/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɒt
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Proto-Indo-European *gel-der.
Proto-Germanic *kluttaz
Proto-West Germanic *klott
Old English clott
Middle English clot
English clot
From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”). Doublet of clod and klutz.
noun clots · clout
- A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
- A solidified mass of any liquid. and nothing elſe but euen, A heauie lump and clottred clod of ſeedes togither driuen)
- A person who is silly, stupid, dull, a clod.
verb clots · clotting · clotted · clout
- To form a clot or mass. When there is a wounded area on the body, the natural response is for platelets in the blood to clot to plug the wound.
- To cause to clot or form into a mass. They didn't explode into blood and clotted matter.
