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touch cloth

touch cloth verb: to be just on the point of soiling oneself.

Verb

touch cloth (third-person singular simple present touches cloth, present participle touching cloth, simple past and past participle touched cloth)

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, intransitive, slang) To be just on the point of soiling oneself.

Forms of touch cloth

third-person singular presenttouches cloth
present participletouching cloth
past participletouched cloth
pasttouched cloth

Questions about touch cloth

What does touch cloth mean?
Touch cloth means to be just on the point of soiling oneself.
What part of speech is touch cloth?
Touch cloth is a verb.
What is the past tense of touch cloth?
The past tense of touch cloth is touched cloth.

Words near touch cloth in the dictionary

  1. touch assists
  2. touch base
  3. Touch Base Policy
  4. touch bases
  5. touch bottom
  6. touch cloth
  7. touch cotton
  8. touch down
  9. touch football
  10. touch footy
  11. touch grass

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