Alternative forms

• cleep, clip
• clep, clip, claip, clype (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CLEPECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CLEPE clepen, clepien, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#CLEPECategory:English terms derived from Old English#CLEPE cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#CLEPECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#CLEPE *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#CLEPECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CLEPE *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kliːp/Category:English 1-syllable words#CLEPECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CLEPE

  • Audio (Southern England):

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    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#CLEPE
• Rhymes: -iːpCategory:Rhymes:English/iːp#CLEPECategory:Rhymes:English/iːp/1 syllable#CLEPE

Verb

clepe (third-person singular simple present clepes, present participle cleping, simple past cleped or clept, past participle cleped or clept or yclept)Category:English lemmas#CLEPECategory:English verbs#CLEPECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CLEPECategory:Pages with entries#CLEPECategory:Pages with 5 entries#CLEPE

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CLEPE, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#CLEPE or dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#CLEPE) To give a call; cry out; appeal.
2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CLEPE, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#CLEPE or dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#CLEPE) To call; call upon; cry out to.
3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CLEPE, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#CLEPE or dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#CLEPE) To call to oneself; invite; summon.
4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CLEPE, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#CLEPE or dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#CLEPE) To call; call by the name of; name.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, lines [995–996]:

     She clepes him king of graues, & graue for kings, / Imperious ſupreme of all mortall things.

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   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 408:

     See Borneo's sea-girt shore where ever flow / the perfumed liquor's thick and curded gouts, / the tears of forest-trees men "Camphor" clepe, / wherefore that Island crop of Fame shall reap.

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   • 1937, Rex Stout, chapter 8, in The Red Box:

     Boyden McNair, with his right elbow on his knee and his bent head resting on the hand which covered his eyes, sat near Wolfe's desk in the dunce's chair, yclept that by me on the day that District Attorney Anderson of Westchester sat in it while Wolfe made a dunce of him.

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5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CLEPE, now chiefly dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#CLEPE, often with 'on') To tell lies about; inform against (someone).
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 173:

     You tried to mentor someone, teach them the basics of the trade, and they ran off to clype on you.

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6. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CLEPE, now chiefly dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#CLEPE) To be loquacious; tattle; gossip.
7. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CLEPE, now chiefly dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#CLEPE) To report; relate; tell.

Noun

clepe (plural clepes)Category:English lemmas#CLEPECategory:English nouns#CLEPECategory:English countable nouns#CLEPECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CLEPECategory:Pages with entries#CLEPECategory:Pages with 5 entries#CLEPE

1. (now chiefly dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#CLEPE) A cry; an appeal; a call.
   • a. 1547, “Virgil’s Æneid”, in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, transl., edited by Geo. Fred. Nott, The Works of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, volume I, London: T. Bensley, published 1815, book II, page 124, lines 1021–1024:

     So bold was I to show my voice that night / With clepes, and cries, to fill the street throughout / With Creuse’ name in sorrow, with vain tears ; / And often-sithes the same for to repeat.

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Anagrams

• cleep

Verb

clepeCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#CLEPECategory:Latin verb forms#CLEPECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CLEPECategory:Pages with entries#CLEPECategory:Pages with 5 entries#CLEPE

1. second-person singular present active imperative of clepō

Verb

clepeCategory:Middle English alternative forms#CLEPECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#CLEPECategory:Pages with entries#CLEPECategory:Pages with 5 entries#CLEPE

1. alternative form of clepen

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from French#CLEPECategory:Spanish terms derived from French#CLEPE crêpe. Doublet of crespo, crep, and crepaCategory:Spanish doublets#CLEPE.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklepe/ [ˈkle.pe]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#CLEPECategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#CLEPE
• Rhymes: -epeCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/epe#CLEPECategory:Rhymes:Spanish/epe/2 syllables#CLEPE
• Syllabification: cle‧pe

Noun

clepe m (plural clepes)Category:Spanish lemmas#CLEPECategory:Spanish nouns#CLEPECategory:Spanish countable nouns#CLEPECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CLEPECategory:Spanish masculine nouns#CLEPECategory:Pages with entries#CLEPECategory:Pages with 5 entries#CLEPE

1. (LouisianaCategory:Louisianian Spanish#CLEPE) crepe

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:Yola terms inherited from Middle English#CLEPECategory:Yola terms derived from Middle English#CLEPE clepen, from Old EnglishCategory:Yola terms inherited from Old English#CLEPECategory:Yola terms derived from Old English#CLEPE clipian, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Yola terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#CLEPECategory:Yola terms derived from Proto-Germanic#CLEPE *klipōną (“to ring, sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kliːp/Category:Yola terms with IPA pronunciation#CLEPE

Verb

clepe (past participle ee-clepèd)Category:Yola lemmas#CLEPECategory:Yola verbs#CLEPECategory:Yola entries with incorrect language header#CLEPECategory:Pages with entries#CLEPECategory:Pages with 5 entries#CLEPE

1. to call, to name

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 30