Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to clout
Participle: clouted
Gerund: clouting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | clout |
| you | clout |
| he;she;it | clouts |
| we | clout |
| you | clout |
| they | clout |
Perfect
| I | have clouted |
| you | have clouted |
| he;she;it | has clouted |
| we | have clouted |
| you | have clouted |
| they | have clouted |
Past
| I | clouted |
| you | clouted |
| he;she;it | clouted |
| we | clouted |
| you | clouted |
| they | clouted |
Pluperfect
| I | had clouted |
| you | had clouted |
| he;she;it | had clouted |
| we | had clouted |
| you | had clouted |
| they | had clouted |
Future
| I | will clout |
| you | will clout |
| he;she;it | will clout |
| we | will clout |
| you | will clout |
| they | will clout |
Future Perfect
| I | will have clouted |
| you | will have clouted |
| he;she;it | will have clouted |
| we | will have clouted |
| you | will have clouted |
| they | will have clouted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | clout |
| you | clout |
| he;she;it | clout |
| we | clout |
| you | clout |
| they | clout |
Perfect
| I | have clouted |
| you | have clouted |
| he;she;it | have clouted |
| we | have clouted |
| you | have clouted |
| they | have clouted |
Imperfect
| I | clouted |
| you | clouted |
| he;she;it | clouted |
| we | clouted |
| you | clouted |
| they | clouted |
Pluperfect
| I | had clouted |
| you | had clouted |
| he;she;it | had clouted |
| we | had clouted |
| you | had clouted |
| they | had clouted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would clout |
| you | would clout |
| he;she;it | would clout |
| we | would clout |
| you | would clout |
| they | would clout |
Perfect
| I | would have clouted |
| you | would have clouted |
| he;she;it | would have clouted |
| we | would have clouted |
| you | would have clouted |
| they | would have clouted |
Imperative
| you | clout |
| we | Let's clout |
| you | clout |
Verbs conjugated like 'clout'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'clout'
claut,
clot,
cloud,
clour,
flout,
glout,
lout,
beclout,
belout,
bloat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English clout (“piece of cloth”), from Old English clūt (“piece of cloth, patch; metal plate”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The influence sense originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.
2. Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German klōz (“lump”), whence German Kloß (“clump”), and dialectal Russian глуда (gluda). See also cleat.
Sample Sentences
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The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye. [[1545?], John Heywood, The Playe Called The Foure PP […], London: […] Wyllyam Myddylton, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, The Play Called The Four PP […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London; Edinburgh: […] T. C. & E. C. Jack, […], 1908, →OCLC, signature [E.ii.], verso:]
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A wizard? Him? How could he possibly be? He'd spent his life being clouted by Dudley, and bullied by Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon; if he was really a wizard, why hadn't they been turned into warty toads every time they'd tried to lock him in his cupboard? [1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, published 1998, page 57:]
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Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in mending an old net, and in clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers what diligence they should use in the expedition of matters. [1549, Hugh Latimer, “[The Second Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer, which He Preached before the King’s Majesty, within His Grace’s Palace at Westminster, the Fifteenth Day of March, 1549.] To the Reader.”, in George Elwes Corrie, editor, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555 (The Works of Hugh Latimer; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University Press, published 1844, →OCLC, page 110:]
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There was a cobbler clowting shoon, / When they were mended, they were done. [1886, James Orchard Haliwell, The Nursery Rhymes of England, 5th edition, page 12:]
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if fond Bavius vent his clouted song [1633, Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island:]