clot

• clout (dated)

From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”). Doublet of klutz.

• IPA^(key): /klɒt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

clot (plural clots)

1. A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
2. A solidified mass of any liquid.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.

3. A silly person.

clot (third-person singular simple present clots, present participle clotting, simple past and past participle clotted)

1. (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
   • 2023 January 5, Amber Smith, “30 Health Benefits of Turmeric”, in Discover Magazine‎, retrieved 2023-01-05:

     When there is a wounded area on the body, the natural response is for platelets in the blood to clot to plug the wound.

2. (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.
   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:

     They didn't explode into blood and clotted matter.

• Colt, TLOC, colt

Uncertain, perhaps Indo-European but from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈklɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

clot m (plural clots)

1. pit, hole
2. dip (a lower section of a road or geological feature)

• clota
• clotada
• clotell
• clotós
• El Clot

• “clot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “clot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “clot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

• clotte

From Old English clot, clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott; compare clod.

• IPA^(key): /klɔt/

clot (plural clottes)

1. A clod; a ball of earth or clay.
2. The ground; the earth's surface.
3. (figurative) The body.
4. (rare) A chunk of turf or soil.

• English: clot

• “clot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.