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clapperclaw
/ ˈæəˌɔː /
verb
- to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
- to revile; abuse
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Derived Forms
- ˈˌɱ, noun
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of clapperclaw1
C16: perhaps from clapper + claw
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Now these rival rogues will clapperclaw one another, and I shall have the sport of it.
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No, I'd not have, upon my life, Great Alexander for my wife, Nor Pompey, nor his dad-in-law, Who did each other clapperclaw.
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To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head.
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But sooth the other was a doughty sparhawk To clapperclaw him well; and both of them Fell in the middle of the boiling pond.
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