Definition of Clam up

1. Verb. Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent. "The children shut up when their father approached"


Definition of Clam up

1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To become silent; to stop talking, to shut up. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clam Up

clairty
clairvoyance
clairvoyances
clairvoyant
clairvoyantly
clairvoyants
clam
clam bake
clam chowder
clam chowders
clam dip
clam shack
clam shacks
clam shrimp
clam shrimps
clam up
clam worm
clam worms
clamancy
clamant
clamantly
clamation
clamations
clamato
clamatorial
clambake
clambakes
clambe
clamber
clambered

Literary usage of Clam up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The R.I. Schoolmaster by Rhode Island Commissioner of Public Schools (1862)
"There are Innumerable intermediate steps in nature from the lowest to the highest organs ; from these rudimentary spots upon the body of the clam up to the ..."

2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"It is now oftener applied to a horse, and more particularly to a mare. " She's a clifty ganner." " clam up the shrouds, and wrought han-spun, ..."

3. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"Unlock'd the barn; clam up the mow." A. Ramsay. " Thence to the circle of the moone she ..."

4. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1912)
"But tarying, and clam up in the roche : 1 waking. * Observe the use of ei lor several southern vowel-sounds. 1 rays. * at once. 3 athwart. ' amuse. ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"Another of the doleful party " clam up the lumm, an' pat her head oot at the tap, wi' her face as black as a ..."

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