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clumse
▪ I. † clumse, a. (n.) Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 7 clums, clumps(e, 8 dial. clomps, 9 dial. clumps. [Related to clumse v., although the actual nature of the relation is not clear. Kindred words appear in mod.Scandinavian: cf. Icel. klumsa, klumsi, lock-jawed, speechless, Sw. dial. klumsen adj. benumbed... Oxford English Dictionary
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clomse
clomesyng, clomps, clomse see clumse. Oxford English Dictionary
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clumsome
ˈclumsome, a. dial. [f. clumse v.]1876 Whitby Gloss., Clumsome or clussum, clumsy-handed. Oxford English Dictionary
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clumpse
▪ I. clumps a game: see clump 4.▪ II. clumps(e see clumse. Oxford English Dictionary
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clumst
† clumsed, clumst, ppl. a. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 4 clumsed, clumsd, clomsed, clumst(e, klumst, clowmst, clomst, 4–5 clumsid, -yd, (7, 9 dial. clumpst). [f. clumse v. + -ed.] 1. Benumbed with cold; numb, palsied, bereft of sensation and power of grasping.1388 Wyclif Isa. xxxv. 3 Coumforte ȝe clumsid... Oxford English Dictionary
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clumsy
clumsy, a. (ˈklʌmzɪ) Also 6 clumbsie, 6–8 clumsie, 6–7 clomsey. [Appears in writers c 1600; not used by Shakespeare; not in Florio, Cotgrave, Bullokar, Cockeram, Blount, Phillips (1696), nor in Cocker 1704. Marston's use of it (among other ‘wild outlandish terms’) was ridiculed by Ben Jonson in Poet... Oxford English Dictionary
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clunch
▪ I. † clunch, a. Obs. exc. dial. [Clunch adj. and n. are immediately connected: earlier quotations have actually been found for the n., but its various senses appear to arise more naturally from that of the adj. The LG. klunt, Du. klont ‘lump, clod, heavy and awkward mass, clown’, etc., which is ex... Oxford English Dictionary
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