† clotteryadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Clotty, cloddy.
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clotty?1523
cloddy1545
clottery1567
surly1609
crust-clung1610
glebous1671
soil-bound1688
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Ev The glebie fielde, and clottrie glebe With mattocke thou must tame.
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adj.1567- to look etc ways for sunday
- to look feel like something the cat has brought in
- to know a hawk from a handsaw
- to know a hawk from a hernshaw
- to know a move or two
- to know a person a thing or two
- to know a person by her company
- to know a person by his company
- to know a person by the company he keeps
- to know a person by the company she keeps
- to know a person in the biblical sense
- to know a thing or two
- to know about
- to know all is to forgive all
- to know all the angles
- to know all the answers
- to know asunder
- to know backwards
- to know best
- to know better
- to know better formerly also better things
- to know both sides of a penny
- to know by headmark
- to know by heart
- to know by rote