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cloor

cloor verb: to claw, scratch.

Verb

cloor (third-person singular simple present cloors, present participle clooring, simple past and past participle cloored)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To claw, scratch.
  2. (dialectal, reflexive) To scratch (oneself).

Noun

cloor (plural cloors)

  1. (dialectal) A scratch, especially from a claw, nail, pin, etc.

Forms of cloor

Verb
third-person singular presentcloors
present participleclooring
past participlecloored
pastcloored
alternative formkloor
alternative formklur
alternative formkluir
Noun
pluralcloors

Origin of cloor

From Scots cloor, from Norwegian klore (“to scratch with the fingers, scrawl”), from Old Norse klóra (“to scrawl, scratch”), klór (“a scratching”), a frequentative verb derived from Old Norse kló (“claw”). Cognate with Icelandic klóra (“to scratch”), Faroese klóra (“to scratch, tear, claw”).

Questions about cloor

What does cloor mean?
Cloor means to claw, scratch.
What part of speech is cloor?
Cloor can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of cloor?
The past tense of cloor is cloored.

Words near cloor in the dictionary

  1. Clooneys
  2. cloop
  3. clooped
  4. clooping
  5. cloops
  6. cloor
  7. clootie
  8. clootie dumpling
  9. clootie dumplings
  10. clooties
  11. clop

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