clogger

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From clog (verb) +‎ -er.

Noun

clogger (plural cloggers)

1. One who, or that which, clogs.

   Synonym: obstructer

   • 2011, Marcia Clark, Guilt By Association:

     With its barred windows and fading paper signs announcing the various forms of its artery cloggers du jour, it couldn't by any stretch be called inviting.

   • 2018, Jessa, Convincing Harper:

     Hmm, I guess Murray hadn't warned him that Nicki was a toilet clogger. Some kids just were, I guess?

2. (soccer, slang) A physically aggressive player.
   • 2010, Ellis Cashmore, Making Sense of Sports, page 314:

     The sport has always been tough, of course; but [Fifa] became concerned that the pre-eminent teams were those that employed particularly physical players, whose specialty was intimidation. This had commercial implications, though they were never spelled out: if the finesse players were succumbing to the “cloggers” as they were known (“clog” meaning to impede or hamper), then the shape of the sport would change fundamentally, skill being replaced by a more robust style of play in which only the strong would survive.

   • 2017, Roger Hannah, The School of Hard Knox: The Autobiography of Archie Knox:

     […] I was normally not able to – unless I fouled him – and I usually did. I think from that time Archie reckoned I was a bit of a clogger and I didn't have Dad's or Archie's skills.

Etymology 2

From clog (noun) +‎ -er.

Noun

clogger (plural cloggers)

1. A maker of the shoes called clogs.

Translations

maker of clogs

• Catalan: escloper m
• Danish: træskomager c
• Dutch: klompenmaker (nl) m
• French: sabotier (fr) m
• German: Holzschuhmacher m
• Italian: zoccolaio (it) m
• Norwegian: treskomaker m

  Nynorsk: treskomakar m

• Slovene: coklar m
• Spanish: zuequero m
• Swedish: träskomakare (sv) c
• Turkish: takunyacı (tr)

Anagrams

• croggle