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語源

Compare Scots clatch (“a slap, the noise caused by the collision of soft bodies”); probably of imitative origin.

名詞

clatch (plural clatches)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A soft or sloppy lump or mass.

   to throw a clatch of mud

2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way.
3. (UK, Scotland, dialect, by extension) A sluttish or slipshod woman.
4. (UK, Scotland, dialect, historical) A kind of gig.

派生語

• clatchy

動詞

clatch (third-person singular simple present clatches, present participle clatching, simple past and past participle clatched)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect, ambitransitive) To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way.