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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
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name
Initialism of College Level Examination Program.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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verb
Alternative form of clepe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To chatter, gossip, tell tales.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
To tattle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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History
From Middle English clepen, from Old English cleopian, clipian.
From Middle English cleppen, from Old English *cleppan, clæppan, from Proto-West Germanic *klappijan. Cognate with Dutch kleppen (“to chatter”).
