klomp

Meaning

  1. (masculine) a wooden shoe, clog
  2. (masculine) a clump, nugget, lump (an unshaped piece or mass)
  3. (masculine) a kicker, protective footwear worn by goalkeepers

Concepts

lump

chunk

clod

clog

sabot

clump

patten

ball

boule

bowl

galosh

overshoe

brake block

brake shoe

drag

hoof

skid

sprag

nugget

wooden shoe

Frequency

24k
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/klɔmp/
Etymology

From Middle Dutch clompe (“lump or mass of metal, wooden shoe, clump”), from Old Dutch *klumpo, from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“lump, clump, mass; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“clamp, mass”). Cognate with Old Frisian klumpa, English clump, Low German Klump, German Klumpen. Related to clamp.

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