Word of the Day: CLOTTYMOLES

also CLOTTIMAULS

ETYMOLOGY
from ‘clotty‘ related to clot (vb.);
with ‘mauls‘ ‘mauley‘ (the hand, fist, sl.)

EXAMPLE
“… sich a passionate chap, I wor afreead o´ his clottymoles comin´ i´ contact wi´ my bowster: soa thowt I, I´d wesh ´em, an´ just sponge my cloas dahn at t´ same toime. …”

From: The Salamanca Corpus
Wadsley Jack; or, The Humours & Adventures of a Travelling Cutler
By Reuben Hallam, 1866

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