Clag

Pronunciation

• IPA: klæɡ
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Origin

Scandinavian: klag: mud

Full definition of clag

Noun

1. A glue or paste made from starch.
2. Low cloud, fog or smog.
• 1993: Harry Furniss, Memoirs - One: The Flying GameThe sky was thick with dirty gray clag
• 2001: Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and AirmanThis programme included practice interceptions, simulator training, day flying, night flying, clag flying -- in addition to... footnote states that clag flying was Air Force slang for foul weather flying.
• 2004: David A Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An AutobiographyWe went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity footnote defines clag as low cloud cover
3. Railway slang Unburned carbon (smoke) from a diesel locomotive or multiple unit.
4. Racing slang Bits of rubber from tires collecting along the circuit.
• He ran wide in the corner and spun off in the clag.

Derived terms

• snaggy

Verb

1. (obsolete) To encumber
• c1620:Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars AmatoriaAs when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruite
• 1725: Edward Taylor, Preparatory MeditationsCan such draw to me/My stund affections all with Cinders clag'd
2. To stick, like boots in mud
• 1999: "A queen of a Santee kitchen, pre-war", quoted by Mary Alston Read Simms in the Introduction to Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909Wash the rice well in two waters, if you don't wash 'em, 'e will clag means get sticky and put 'em in a pot of well-salted boiling water.

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