A few days ago
How common is clobber?
I was just watching “The Fantastic Four” and The Thing’s “it’s clobberin’ time!” made me wonder: how often do we use this word today? It feels kind of quaint and old-fashioned–what do you guys think? What context, if any, would you use it in? Thanks much!
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A few days ago
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When my coworker sneaks up behind me at work and rams my chair, scaring the heck out of me, I yell, “I’m going to clobber you if you do that again!”
Seems like a natural response to me.
‘Course, I live in Texas, and we talk funny here.
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A few days ago
About forty years ago (showing my age) a few of us looked into this and found some evidence that clobber means to stamp on with a spiked shoe (ouch!). Sorry, no reference.
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a relationship to ‘club,’ but doesn’t consider clobber in its modern sense.
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A few days ago
it is a quaint, old-fashioned word but, it still gets used. one sports team “clobbered” the other. a guy got fresh and I “clobbered” him. basically, it is synonymous with hit
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A few days ago
I’m gonna beat the stuff out of you
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