• Clost

    Full definition of clost

    Adjective

    clost

    1. Eye dialect of close
      • 1904, Rex Beach, Pardners Chapter , Then she hugged the kiddie clost to her, standing straight and queenly, her eyes ablaze, her lips moist, and red, and scornful.
      • 1910, Stewart Edward White, The Rules of the Game Chapter , "It won't get clost to there," put in Jack.
      • 1922, Emerson Hough, The Covered Wagon Chapter , Don't waste no powder--let 'em come up clost as they will.

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