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 136 Clidgy. Same as Clibby or Cliggy. Sticky. Clidgy. Sugar stick. TofFy. Clink. A town or parish blackhole for tramps and rogues. The word clinh is old and known outside Cornwall. The writer when a boy knew no other name for a blackhole. Clink is giving place to the term "the lock up." The derivation is obscure. Dr. Johnson says '' dink is perhaps softened from clank, or corrup- ted from clicks Clicket (in old French cliquet) means a key, or instru- ment to open a door. " Save he himself for the smale wicket He bare alway of a silver clicket.^^ Chaucer s Merchanfs*Tale, Compare dink with the Latin dingo, to encompass. (In Festus, Minshew.) Clip or Click. A fillip, or light quick blow. I'll giv'ee a clip in the ear." Also, a short, snappish way of speaking, as, " She's very clip." Clip. To turn the earth for a crop, Clisty. See Clusty. cutter. A clatter, a confused noise, a fuss. Cloam^ or Clome. Earthenware. This word is also used in Pembrokeshire, &c. Cloamin, Made of  cloam." Q.v. A stupid person is called  a cloamin fellow."