单词 | clunter |
释义 | cluntern. dialect. Categories » ‘A big lump’ ( Cheshire Gloss. 1886). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). † clunterv. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [verb (intransitive)] > form lumps clotterc1405 clodder1499 clod1530 clot1530 cluster1561 clunter1587 clutter1601 coagulate1669 lump1722 coalesce1759 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 158 She..mixeth them with the malt..otherwise these later would clunter, fall into lumps, and thereby become vnprofitable. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Clunter, to turn lumpy, as..in boiling. Yorksh. 2. transitive. To put together clumsily, to clumper up. ΚΠ 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘It was clunter'd up onny hoo’, clapped together, as we say of slop furniture. 3. intransitive. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 322 Clunter, to make a rude noise with the feet in walking. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Clunter, to stamp with the feet. Cluntering, walking clownishly. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Clunther, v. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Clunter. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Clonter, to make a clatter, especially in walking with heavy boots or clogs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > as lemmasclunter Categories » clunter n. ‘an unnimble stumbler’ (Thoresby Lett. to Ray 1703). < as lemmas |
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