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单词 clouting
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cloutingn.

/ˈklaʊtɪŋ/
Etymology: < clout v.
1. The action of mending, patching, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > with a patch
clouting1382
piecing1395
vampeying1416
patching1445
vamping1599
patchwork1712
1382 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 509 Cristis clene religioun wiþ~oute cloutynge of sinfulle mennis errours.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 84 Clowtynge of clothys, sartura.
c1490 Promptorium Parvulorum 84 (MS. K) Clowtynge of shone, pictacio.
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 30v Here passe I ouer the clowtynge in of their canonycall houres.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Giiv It is a bad sacke that will abide no cloutyng.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. vii. 384 An Arab man, in cloak of his own clouting.
attributive.1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. G3 To furnish a Coblers shoppe with clowting leather.
2. Cuffing, striking with the hand.
3. = bagging n.3: see clout v. 8.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

cloutingadj.

Etymology: formed as clout v. + -ing suffix2.
That ‘clouts’ or patches; botching, bungling.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > putting together clumsily
botching1554
cobbling1575
clouting1581
tinkering1598
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 415 A wonderfull clownishe conclusion, meete for such a clowting botcher.
1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. L3v To heare how some such clouting beetles rowle in their loblogicke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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