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Added 9 October 2026

clog

/klɒɡ/ noun

In Latin: sculpōnea Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about clog at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
A blockage.
The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
A shoe of any type.

verb

To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

Origin

Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”). Perhaps of North Germanic origin and derived from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“lump, mass, clasp”); compare Old Norse klugu, klogo (“knotty tree log”), Dutch klomp.

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