clinchpoop
English
Noun
clinchpoop (plural clinchpoops)
- (obsolete, derogatory) Alternative spelling of clenchpoop
- 1949, Costain, Thomas Bertram, High Towers:
- There was an unctuous quality to his voice and a description of him which she had once heard the baron use went through her mind: "that pompous old clinchpoop."
- 1983, Larson, Charles, The Portland Murders:
- "Oh, don't deny it!" Isabel cried dramatically. "There's a word for me in Old English! Clinchpoop!"
"Clinchpoop?"
"I am a clinchpoop! A clod and a boor and a—"
"You're not a clinchpoop."
"And do you know what the height of clinchpoopery is? It's when you realize the other guy's right but you won't say so because you're too bloody selfish!"
- 2006, McGough, Roger, “Prayer to Saint Grobianos, the Patron Saint of Coarse People”, in Selected Poems, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 152:
- Have pity on we poor wretched sinners / We blatherskites and lopdoodles / Lickspiggots and clinchpoops / Quibberdicks and Quakebuttocks.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clenchpoop.
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