Gag vs Clog - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between gag and clog

is that gag is gag (a joke or other mischievous prank) while clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

As a verb clog is

to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

gag

English

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (head) (Group-specific antigen)

group specific antigens

Noun

(en noun)

A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.

(legal) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.

A joke or other mischievous prank.

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A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.

(archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.

a gag of mutton fat

(Lamb)

Synonyms

* (legal) gag order * (joke) See also

Derived terms

* sight gag

Verb

To experience the vomiting reflex.

He gagged when he saw the open wound.

To cause to heave with nausea.

(rfc-sense) To : to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration).

To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.

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''The victims could not speak because the burglar had gagged them with duct tape.

(figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.

When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.

* Macaulay

The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged , and reason to be hoodwinked.

To pry or hold open by means of a gag.

* Fortescue (translation)

mouths gagged to such a wideness

Derived terms

* gag me with a spoon

clog

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia clog)

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.

A blockage.

The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.

(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.

* 1987 , :

Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.

A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.

* Hudibras

As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .

* Tennyson

A clog of lead was round my feet.

That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

* Burke

All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

Derived terms

* clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogs

Verb

To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

Hair is clogging the drainpipe.

The roads are clogged up with traffic.

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

* Dryden

The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.

To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

* Addison

The commodities are clogged with impositions.

* Shakespeare

You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.