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Definition: CLUTCHING |
CLUTCHINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Clutch |
Date "CLUTCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: CLUTCHING |
| Specialty definitions using "CLUTCHING": Dogs ♦ roller grip. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CLUTCHING": GRAPE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936) Pimple's Clutching Hand (1916) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Disturbed old man with firetongs clutching head with three onlookers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Never have the fingers of night, which are clutching beneath this asphyxiating vault, turned the leaves of a book, or unfolded a journal |
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| "CLUTCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.12% of the time. "CLUTCHING" is used about 691 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 98.12% | 678 | 9,740 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.16% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 691 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CLUTCHING": clutching-tongs. | |
Ending with "CLUTCHING": club-clutching, de-clutching, heart-clutching, straw-clutching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clutching double | 93 |
clutching double granny not shifting | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CLUTCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | "住 (Catch, Clutched). (various references) | |
Danish | skraldemekanisme (locking), fastlåsning (latching, locking). (various references) | |
Dutch | vergrendeling (activation, brake, interlock, interlocking, latching, locking, safety lock), knip (bolt). (various references) | |
French | verrouillage (clamping), encliquetage, agriffant. (various references) | |
German | packend (enthralling, grappling, grasping, gripping, Packing, thrilling). (various references) | |
Greek | κλείδωμα (blind, latch, locking), σύμπλεξη (engagement), γρανάζι μιας κατεύθυνσης (locking, pin and linch pin), μπλοκάρισμα (blocking, hangup, interlock, locking, mute), ακινητοποίηση (immobilization, standstill), ασφάλεια (assurance, insurance, safeness, safety, safety catch, safety lock, secureness, security, surety). (various references) | |
Italian | serraggio (clamping, grab, locking, mounting, supporting), innesto (connection, connexion, graft, grafting, joint), bloccaggio (blockage, deadlock). (various references) | |
Korean | 꼭잡음. (various references) | |
Manx | greimmagh (grasping, gripping, snappy, sticky). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utchingclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | travamento (clamping). (various references) | |
Spanish | bloqueo (block, blockade, blockage, deadlock, freezing, locking, tie up, whitewash). (various references) | |
Swedish | fasthållande (adherence, adhesion, holdfast, holding, insistence on). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CLUTCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clachaig, clutchen, cluthing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CLUTCHING" (pronounced klu"khing) |
| 4 | -u" kh i ng | retouching, touching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, attaching, beaching, belching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, catching, clinching, coaching, crouching, crunching, dispatching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hatching, hitching, impeaching, inching, itching, latching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, matching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, patching, pinching, pitching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retrenching, scorching, scratching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snatching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, teaching, torching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-g-h-i-l-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: chuting. | |
-3 letters: clinch, cluing, clutch, cultch, cultic, glitch, glunch, incult, luting, unchic. | |
-4 letters: cinch, cling, clung, cuing, culch, culti, cutch, cutin, glint, guilt, gulch, licht, light, lunch, lungi, night, thing, tunic, unlit, until. | |
-5 letters: chic, chin, chit, chug, clit, cult, gilt, glut, hilt, hint, huic, hung, hunt, iglu, inch, itch, lich, ling, lint, litu. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-g-h-i-l-n-t-u" | |
+5 letters: shuttlecocking. | |
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