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Clapperclaw

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To jangle and claw each other about. (Dutch and German, klappen, to strike, clatter.)

“Now they are clapper-clawing one another Iʹll go look on.”—Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, v. 4.

⁂ A clapper-claw is a back-scratcher.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Civis Romanus Sum
Civitas Solis
Clabber Napper’s Hole
Clack Dish
Claft
Clak-ho-haryah
Clam
Clan-na-Gael (The)
Clap-trap
Clapper
Clapperclaw
Clapper-dudgeons
Clapping the Prayer Books
Claque; Claqueurs
Claras (Stock Exchange term)
Clare (St.)
Clarenceux King-of-Arms
Clarendon
Clarendon Type
Claret
Claret