clepe – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to clepe
Participle: cleped
Gerund: cleping

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	clepe
we	Let's clepe
you	clepe

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

call by the name of

denominate

tell lies about; inform against

rat out

be loquacious; tattle; gossip

chatter, gossip

to talk about someone else's private or personal business

blab, chelp, dish, dish the dirt, gossip, jaunder, labrish, shoot the shit, talk out of turn, tattle, tell tales out of school, tittle-tattle

to talk too much; to talk idly

babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clack, claver, drivel, gabble, gibber, go on, jabber, maunder, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter

to give a name to

bename, call, denominate, designate, dub, entitle, name, nominate, style, term

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”). See: Middle English 'clepen'.

Sample Sentences