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clinger

noun

Etymology

From cling + -er.

  1. inherited from *klinganą✻
  2. inherited from *klingan✻
  3. inherited from clingan — “to adhere”
  4. inherited from clingen
  5. suffixed as clinger — “cling + er”

Definitions

  1. One who clings.

  2. An emotionally clingy person.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for clinger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA