Definitions
fill to excess so that function is impaired
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.”
“[…] as to the poor—just look at them when they come crowding about the church-doors on the occasion of a marriage or a funeral, clattering in clogs; […]”
“She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Block up”4 letters
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