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In rereading one of my Laurie King books, I have twice come upon the word clitter. It is used to describe the ground immediately around the character, and I gather that it means something like a jumble of rocks. Has anyone else come across, or use, this word?
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Brit. dial.
= CLATTER n.2
1884 Illust. Lond. News, Christm. No. 23/2 They might have taken shelter among a ‘clitter’ of rocks somewhere.
well, leaving no stones unturned, clatter is "A mass of loose boulders or shattered stones; so called on Dartmoor."
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I always think of the word clitter in conjunction with slope, that is, "clitter slope", which means, I think, a hillside strewn with rocks.
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clatter is "A mass of loose boulders or shattered stones; so called on Dartmo
B&M OED lists clitter as a variant of this meaning of clatter.
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Thanks, you-all (she said, idiotismically for here); and holy cow, Laurie King really knows her stuff and/or does her homework: this book takes place in Dartmoor. It's the only one of hers (so far) that does, and I don't think she uses clitter in any of her other books. (She's not British, as far as I know.)
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Adjective form: "clitterous?"
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> clitterous
oh, I think the weather's going to get just a bit moore inclement after that one...
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oh, I think the weather's going to get just a bit moore inclement after that one...
inclement clark moore? (bar t'hat)
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The moon on the snow looked so very glitterous
that Mama said, "Goodness! Oh, my (how) clitterous"...
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The moon on the snow was aglittering
While the girl in my arms was aflittering.
"Keep still", I despaired
"Lest my mood is impaired
Leaving my amor adithering."
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This thread has really gone all pear-shaped.
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Gee, correct me if i am wrong--but didn't Plutarck just agree to play nice if i stopped bothering him?
Bob's my uncle (NOT)--shall i post another alais on the plutarck--AKA thread?
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Gee, correct me if i am wrong ...
Sorry if you mistook that little nonsense rhyme in response to Jackie's poetic flight as a slight on you, Of Troy. It wasn't intended as such.
Rest assured, I will keep my convenant not to offer any unprovoked offence to you.
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