clout

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• Received-Pronunciation: /klaʊt/
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• Canada, General-American: /klaʊt/
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• Canada, General-American: [klʌʊt] Canadian raising
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• North Carolina Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Australian: /klæɔt/
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• New-Zealand: /klæʊt/
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• rhymes with -aʊt
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• CMU ARPABET: K L AW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English clout (“piece of cloth”), from Old English clūt (“piece of cloth, patch; metal plate”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The influence sense originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread. Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German klōz (“lump”), whence German Kloß (“clump”), and dialectal Russian глуда (gluda). See also cleat.

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: influència — influence, effectiveness
• Czech: vliv — influence, effectiveness
• Czech: moc — influence, effectiveness
• Czech: váha — influence, effectiveness
• Dutch: invloed — influence, effectiveness
• Dutch: slagkracht — influence, effectiveness
• Finnish: vaikutusvalta — influence, effectiveness
• Finnish: painoarvo — influence, effectiveness
• Finnish: cloutti — influence, effectiveness
• French: influence — influence, effectiveness
• German: Einfluss — influence, effectiveness
• German: Gewicht — influence, effectiveness
• German: Durchsetzungskraft — influence, effectiveness
• Polish: znaczenie polityczne — influence, effectiveness
• Romanian: influență — influence, effectiveness
• Russian: влия́ние (vlijánije) — influence, effectiveness
• Russian: вес (ves) — influence, effectiveness
• Serbo-Croatian: utjecaj — influence, effectiveness
• Serbo-Croatian: uticaj — influence, effectiveness
• Serbo-Croatian: upliv — influence, effectiveness
• Spanish: cuña — influence, effectiveness
• Spanish: valimiento — influence, effectiveness
• Swedish: inflytande — influence, effectiveness
• Swedish: slagkraft — influence, effectiveness
• Bulgarian: плесница (plesnica) — informal: blow with the hand
• Catalan: mastegot — informal: blow with the hand
• Czech: rána — informal: blow with the hand
• Dutch: klap — informal: blow with the hand
• Dutch: oorvijg — informal: blow with the hand
• Dutch: slag — informal: blow with the hand
• Finnish: tälli — informal: blow with the hand
• French: coup — informal: blow with the hand
• German: Kopfnuss — informal: blow with the hand
• Irish: cíonán — informal: blow with the hand
• Irish: clabhta — informal: blow with the hand
• Russian: уда́р (udár) — informal: blow with the hand
• Russian: затре́щина (zatréščina) — informal: blow with the hand
• Serbo-Croatian: treska — informal: blow with the hand
• Serbo-Croatian: pljeska — informal: blow with the hand
• Spanish: mamporro — informal: blow with the hand
• Swedish: smocka — informal: blow with the hand
• Finnish: kunnari — informal: home run
• Dutch: doelwit — archery: center of the butt
• Dutch: roos — archery: center of the butt
• Finnish: pilkka — archery: center of the butt
• Finnish: pilkku — archery: center of the butt
• Albanian: pelenë — swaddling cloth
• Bulgarian: парцал (parcal) — swaddling cloth
• Dutch: wikkel — swaddling cloth
• Dutch: luier — swaddling cloth
• Finnish: kapalo — swaddling cloth
• Ido: lanjo — swaddling cloth
• Middle English: clout — swaddling cloth
• Serbo-Croatian: povoj — swaddling cloth
• Albanian: arnë — piece of cloth
• Bulgarian: парцал (parcal) — piece of cloth
• Bulgarian: парче плат (parče plat) — piece of cloth
• Dutch: lap — piece of cloth
• Dutch: vod — piece of cloth
• Dutch: doek — piece of cloth
• Finnish: tilkku — piece of cloth
• Finnish: paikka — piece of cloth
• Finnish: riepu — piece of cloth
• Finnish: rätti — piece of cloth
• Irish: ceirt — piece of cloth
• Middle English: clout — piece of cloth
• Serbo-Croatian: krpa — piece of cloth
• Ottoman Turkish: پاچاوره (paçavra) — piece of cloth
• Ottoman Turkish: خرقه (hırka) — piece of cloth
• Dutch: rondel — iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing
• Dutch: ring — iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing
• Finnish: prikka — iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing
• Middle English: clout — iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing
• Bulgarian: парче (parče) — piece, fragment
• Dutch: brok — piece, fragment
• Dutch: stuk — piece, fragment
• Dutch: fragment — piece, fragment
• Finnish: hitunen — piece, fragment
• Middle English: clout — piece, fragment
• Bulgarian: удрям (udrjam) — hit, especially with the fist
• Czech: uhodit — hit, especially with the fist
• Czech: třísknout — hit, especially with the fist
• Czech: praštit — hit, especially with the fist
• Czech: bacit — hit, especially with the fist
• Dutch: slaan — hit, especially with the fist
• Dutch: oorvijgen — hit, especially with the fist
• Finnish: lyödä — hit, especially with the fist
• German: schlagen — hit, especially with the fist
• Middle English: clouten — hit, especially with the fist