clogとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”). Perhaps of North Germanic origin; compare Old Norse klugu, klogo (“knotty tree log”),^[1] Dutch klomp.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /klɒɡ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /klɑɡ/, /klɔɡ/
• 韻: -ɒɡ

名詞

clog (複数形 clogs)

1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

   Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.

   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 15, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], OCLC 84390265:

     […] as to the poor—just look at them when they come crowding about the church doors on the occasion of a marriage or a funeral, clattering in clogs;

   • 2002, Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, Chapter 5, p. 92,^[1]

     She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.

2. A blockage.

   The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.

3. (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
   • 1987, Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I, spoken by Withnail:

     I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs.

4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
   • 1663, [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, OCLC 890163163; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346, canto 3:

     Yet as a Dog committed close / For some offence, by chance breaks loose, / And quits his Clog; but all in vain, / He still draws after him his Chain.

   • 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Letters” in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 115,^[2]

     A clog of lead was round my feet / A band of pain across my brow;

5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene vi], page 45:

     The grand Conſpirator, Abbot of Weſtminster, / With clog of Conſcience, and ſowre Melancholly / Hath yeelded up his body to the graue;

   • 1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Edmund Burke: Esq; one of the representatives in Parliament for the city of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. sheriffs of that city, on the Affairs of America, London: J. Dodsley, p. 8,^[3]

     All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England, are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1000392275, pages 69–70:

     By the same rule, they must send your mamma her travelling expences, miss; she can't have the clog of a couple of grown daughters at her heels without money in her pocket.

   • 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 56, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, OCLC 83344188:

     If we were as rich as your uncle, I should feel it to be both a duty and a pleasure to keep an elegant table; but limited means are a sad clog to one’s wishes.

派生語

動詞

clog (三人称単数 現在形 clogs, 現在分詞 clogging, 過去形および過去分詞形 clogged)

1. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').

   Hair is clogging the drainpipe.

   The roads are clogged up with traffic.

2. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
   • 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838:

     The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.

3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
   • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 1051505315:

     The commodities […] are clogged with impositions.

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene vi]:

     You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.

4. (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
   • 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.

     For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable ^[sic] as against public policy.

5. (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
   • 2014, Jeff Abbott, Cut and Run:

     And in a burst of Celtic drums and fiddles, a bosomy colleen with a jaunty green hat and suit jacket riverdanced onto the stage, clogging with a surprising degree of expertise, barely restrained breasts jiggling.

派生語

• anticlog
• cloggable
• cloggy
• clog up
• declog
• nonclogging
• unclog
• uncloggable

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