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Clootie

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Auld Clootie. Old Nick The Scotch call a cloven hoof a cloot, so that Auld Clootie is Old Cloven-foot.

 

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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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Clio
Clipper
Clipping Pace (A)
Cliquot (of Punch celebrity)
Cloacina
Cloak and Sword Plays
Clock
Clodhopper
Clog Almanac
Cloister
Clootie
Cloridano (in Orlando Furioso)
Clorinda (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Close as a Clam
Close Rolls
Close-time for Game
Closh (Mynherr)
Cloten
Cloth (The)
Clotharius
Clotho