Clapperclaw

Definition: Clapperclaw

Clapperclaw

Verb

1. Claw with the nails.

2. Use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher".

Note: Clapperclaw \Clap"per*claw\, transitive verb. [Clap claw.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Clapperclaw To jangle and claw each other about. (Dutch and German, klappen, to strike, clatter.) "Now they are clapper-clawing one another I'll go look on."- Shakespeare: Troilus, and Cressida, v. A. A clapper-claw is a back-scratcher. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Clapperclaw

Synonyms: abuse (v), blackguard (v), shout (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contention	Contend; with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush; n. with, tilt with; encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw, run a tilt at; oppose; reluct.
Disapprobation	Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Language		Translations for "clapperclaw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gërvisht (bark, clank, claw, graze, jingle, lacerate, Nick, scarify, scrabble, scratch, strum, tear), çjerr (claw, lacerate, scratch, tear up). (various references)

Bulgarian		съдирам (bark, jag, rend, rip, slate, split, tear), одрасквам (graze, rake, scrape, scratch, scuff). (various references)

German		heftig angreifen. (various references)

Hungarian		rúg-harap. (various references)

Pig Latin		apperclawclay

Portuguese		criticar (animadvert, assail, attack, carp, censure, comment, complain, criticize, faultfinder, impeach, knock about, land on, review, slash, vet), surrar (bash, drub, lash, wallop), insultar (abuse, affront, blackguard, fly into a passion, insult, outrage, revile, vituperate), ferir (bite, bruise, buffet, claw, cut, hit, huff, hurt, injure, let bygones be bygones, scathe, shock, touch, wound), arranhar (claw, dodder, gall bladder, grazier, rase, raze, scrabble, scrape, scratch, splutter, sputter, strum, thrum, twang). (various references)

Russian		царапать (claw, crab, scrabble, scratch), бранить (chide, objurgate, pepper, rail against, rate, reprove, scold, take to task, vituperate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izgrebati kandžama. (various references)

Spanish		criticar fuertemente. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "clapperclaw": clapperclawed, clapperclawing, clapperclaws. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "clapperclaw" (pronounced 'Clap"per*claw'): Caperclaw, Dewclaw, Wolf's-claw. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-l-p-p-r-w"
	-2 letters: wallpaper.
	-4 letters: apparel, carpale, clapper.
	-5 letters: appall, appeal, appear, caecal, calcar, caller, calpac, capper, carcel, carpal, carpel, cellar, clawer, earlap, lapper, paella, palace, paleal, palpal, parcel, placer, prelaw, rappel, recall.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-l-p-p-r-w"
	+1 letter: clapperclaws.
	+2 letters: clapperclawed.
	+3 letters: clapperclawing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6C 61 70 70 65 72 63 6C 61 77

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. .-.. .- .--. .--. . .-. -.-. .-.. .- .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101100 01100001 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#97 &#112 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#99 &#108 &#97 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 0061 0070 0070 0065 0072 0063 006C 0061 0077

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3778678282718469786789

Non-English Dictionaries with "Clapperclaw"

Language	Coverage	Language Translations
Albanian	fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim	shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albaner, albán, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés
Bulgarian	речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод	bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulgare, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro
German	Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition	gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, német, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán
Hungarian	szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás	унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Ungar, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro
Portuguese	dicionário, definição, tradução	portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugiesisch, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués
Russian	словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение	руски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso
Serbo-Croatian	leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje	serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski
Spanish	diccionario, definición, traducción	spanjoll, испански език, испански, spanisch, spanyol, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español
English	Dictionary, Definition, Translation	anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, englisch, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés

Clapperclaw

Definition: Clapperclaw

Clapperclaw

Verb

Specialty Definitions: Clapperclaw

Synonyms: Clapperclaw

Synonyms within Context: Clapperclaw

Contention

Disapprobation

Modern Translation: Clapperclaw

Albanian

Bulgarian

German

Hungarian

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Derivations: Clapperclaw

Derivations

Rhyming with "Clapperclaw"

Anagrams: Clapperclaw

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Clapperclaw

43 6C 61 70 70 65 72 63 6C 61 77

-.-. .-.. .- .--. .--. . .-. -.-. .-.. .- .--.

01000011 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101100 01100001 01110111

&#67 &#108 &#97 &#112 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#99 &#108 &#97 &#119

0043 006C 0061 0070 0070 0065 0072 0063 006C 0061 0077

3778678282718469786789

Non-English Dictionaries with "Clapperclaw"

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