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clouty

clouty noun: cotton.

Noun

clouty (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) cotton
    • but on a day I conceived a glorious idea, or it was put into my head by my mother, then desirous of making progress with her new clouty hearth-rug.1896, James Matthew Barrie, Margaret Ogilvy

Words that rhyme with clouty

Questions about clouty

What does clouty mean?
Clouty means cotton.
What part of speech is clouty?
Clouty is a noun.

Words near clouty in the dictionary

  1. clouting on
  2. cloutings
  3. cloutless
  4. clouts
  5. clouts on
  6. clouty
  7. cloué
  8. clouée
  9. clovamide
  10. Clovass
  11. clove

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