Meaning

7 senses

  1. (dialectal, intransitive, often)To tell lies about; inform against (someone).

  2. (dialectal, intransitive)To be loquacious; tattle; gossip.

  3. (dialectal, transitive)To report; relate; tell.

  4. (archaic, dialectal, intransitive)To give a call; cry out; appeal.

  5. (archaic, dialectal, transitive)To call; call upon; cry out to.

  6. (archaic, dialectal, transitive)To call to oneself; invite; summon.

  7. (archaic, dialectal, transitive)To call; call by the name of; name.

Origin

From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry ou

From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *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”).

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Forms

clepes, cleping, cleped, cleped
Base formclepe · to clepe
3rd person singularclepes
Present participlecleping
Past simplecleped / clept
Past participlecleped / clept / ycleped / yclept

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyclepe
he, she, itclepes

Past simpleLesson

all personscleped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cleped
he, she, ithas cleped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill clepe

Synonyms

7 synonyms
tell lies about; inform against:grassA1
nameB1dubsnitchchatter
call by the name of:designate
be loquacious; tattle; gossip:blab

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbeclepe

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

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