clootie
noun
clootie is a noun meaning “A piece of rag” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-L-O-O-T-I-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of clootie is clooties.
What does clootie mean?
noun
- 1
ScotlandA piece of rag.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce clootie?
Clootie has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of clootie
- clooties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is clootie?
Clootie appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does clootie come from?
From Scots [Term?]; see cloot (“cloth”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).