Definitions for Cloots

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Spelling: [klohts]
IPA: /kloʊts/

Cloots is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in Cloots (cloost).

Definitions for Cloots

noun

  1. Jean Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce [zhahn ba-teest dy val duh-grahs] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dü val dəˈgrɑs/ (Show IPA), Baron de ("Anacharsis Clootz") 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.
  2. a cloven hoof; one of the divisions of the cloven hoof of the swine, sheep, etc.
  3. (usually initial capital letter). Often, Cloots. Satan; the devil.

Origin of Cloots

1715-25; perhaps akin to Dutch klauwtje, equivalent to klauw claw + -tje diminutive suffix

Examples for Cloots

A friend of Cloots he suffered with him on the scaffold, 24 March, 1794.

Yet Cloots saw now with transfixing clarity that he did not know him in the least—could never have known him.

Cloots had taken the measure of him months before and once for all, he would have said, in his smoky little village.

The young Cloots, heir to a great fortune, was sent at eleven years of age to Paris to complete his education.

And in fact it became clear to Cloots that this affair would have to be solved on the spot.

The doctor sought no further comments on Cloots—that was quite sufficient and might serve for an epitaph.

Cloots arrived as a confident and more or less truly appreciative observer of all these details.

Cloots had fallen back to the wall with sagging jaw, with eyes fixed and starting in their sockets.

Cloots stepped into the chapel for no purpose, in mere idle discernment of color and contrast.

Cloots reckoned that he had perhaps five minutes before the stated limit.

Word Value for Cloots
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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