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Jun. 22, 2015
Word of the Day

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\kleep\
verb
1. Archaic. to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).
Quotes
…That none of us not speak a single word, / Nor clepe nor cry, but be in his prayere, / For that is Godde's owen heste dear.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1400
Origin
Clepe has been in English since before 900. It is akin to the Middle Low German kleperen meaning "to rattle."
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