Crossword clues for clootie
clootie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clootie \Cloot"ie\, n. (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
A little hoof.
The Devil. ``Satan, Nick, or Clootie.''
--Burns.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Clutie, "the devil," 1785, Scottish, literally "hoofed," from cloot "hoof, division of a hoof," from Old Norse klo "claw" (see claw (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. (context Scotland English) A piece of rag
Wikipedia
A clootie, diminutive of Scots cloot, is a strip or piece of cloth, a rag or item of clothing; it can also refer to fabric used in the patching of clothes or the making of proddy rugs (aka "clootie mats").
Usage examples of "clootie".
Blew the great gonne tae flinders, it did, sent a' the gonners tae meet Auld Clootie, fired a' the timbers alang wi' fu' mickle caskets a' poudre!
There are three portable sigmas all charged and ready to hang around my royal neck when I decide to go to sleep and I can't help thinking how a beam from an X-zapper could slice through those shields like a sgian dhu through a goddam clootie dumpling .
What I'd give for a plate of nice roast mutton with clootie dumplings.
What I'd give for a plate of nice roast mutton with clootie dumplings .
After a dinner of sheep's head broth, rabbit casserole, and clootie dumplings, Qwilleran excused himself, saying he had a headache and wished to retire early, although the chief reason was a desire to get away from his fellow travelers.