clog

Meaning

Noun

1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
2. A blockage.
3. (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

Verb

1. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
2. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
4. To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
5. (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.

Synonyms

block

choke

sabot

plug

patten

congest

obstacle

stuff

wooden shoe

hindrance

obstruction

bar

stopper

choke up

clog dancing

fill

clog dance

clot

stop up

cumber

tamp

stop

🛑

constipate

jam

blocking

clog up

clogging

blockade

weigh down

choke off

geta

stopple

encumber

chock

prevent

back up

drag

stick

obstruct

bung

barrier

occlude

hinder

encumbrance

impediment

foul

overload

clump

blockage

barricade

Translations

zueco

dichtmaken

boucher

dichten

zoccolo

stoppen

🛑

esclop

verstopfen

sabot

verstoppen

atascar

obstruir

klomp

toestoppen

Holzschuh

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klɒɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: clog

In summary

Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”). Perhaps of North Germanic origin and derived from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“lump, mass, clasp”); compare Old Norse klugu, klogo (“knotty tree log”), Dutch klomp.