Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
clothes peg .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wear a clothespeg over my nose in the voting booth?
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Is there really anywhere that, say, comfortably SNP voters would actively switch to the Tories big clothespeg for nose.
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The biggest set of bookshelves was partly hidden by a petticoat, the waist-band of which was caught upon the back of a slender book pulled a little out of the row so as to make an improvised clothespeg.
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Springfield, Vermont invented the wooden clothespeg we know today, made up of two wooden legs hinged together with a metal spring.
British Blogs Heritage 2010
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I suspect she now regrets the clothespeg ploy last time, if only because she can’t use it now things are really desparate.
Is comment really free? Alix Mortimer 2009
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First reaction to the clothespeg bomb: "You f****** bastards."
unknown title 2008
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