Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapperclawed
Literary usage of Clapperclawed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"Again I clapperclawed, according to the fashion of the country, a violent shake
of the paw being the Jamaica ..."
2. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1875)
"... is stated to have never been ' staled with the stage' or 'clapperclawed with
the palms of the vulgar;' but before the rest of the edition was issued, ..."
3. A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642 by Frederick Gard Fleay (1891)
"... and insert a Preface that it was " never staled with the stage, never
clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar," but was (to the reader) "a new play. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... curiosity to hear what other folks said of him — when Jonathan, I say. saw how
John Bull had clapperclawed his character, he got out of all patience, ..."
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