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clapperclaw

/ ˈæəˌɔː /

verb

  1. to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
  2. to revile; abuse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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