Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To stick; adhere; become thick or glutinous.
  • To clutch; catch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Alternative form of clutch.
  • noun Alternative form of clutch.

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Examples

  • Once he waved away a briefing paper with a cry of: "This is simply clitch, clitch, clitch."

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • • Finally, "clitch, clitch, clitch", we said, poking fun at politicians who mangle their pronunciation.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • I have experienced this before and thought maybe it was a clitch or that it did not meet editorial policy.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Was the article by Frank Schaffer removed? 2009

  • Don't laugh - seriously, titter ye not; these things have their uses, and, to add clitch upon clitch as my dad used to say, if it works for you don't knock it.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Imogen 2008

  • Don't laugh - seriously, titter ye not; these things have their uses, and, to add clitch upon clitch as my dad used to say, if it works for you don't knock it.

    Friday lunchtime Imogen 2008

  • I assure ye, Pa'son Tarkenham, that in the clitch o 'my knees, where the rain used to come through when I was cutting clots for the new lawn, in old my lady's time, 'tis as if rats wez gnawing, every now and then.

    Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Now my problem is a bit of a clitch (kind of an interesting one but unwanted)

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • Tarkenham, that in the clitch o’ my knees, where the rain used to come through when I was cutting clots for the new lawn, in old my lady’s time, ’tis as if rats wez gnawing, every now and then.

    Two on a Tower 2006

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