clouter

English

Etymology

From Middle English clowter; equivalent to clout +‎ -er.

Noun

clouter (plural clouters)

1. One who clouts or strikes.
2. (slang) A thief.
3. (obsolete) One who patches clothes.

Derived terms

• clouterly

Anagrams

• Coulter, cloture, clôture, coulter, lectour

French

Etymology

From clou (“nail”) +‎ -t- (euphonic consonant) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klu.te/

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Verb

clouter

1. to decorate with nails; to stud

Conjugation

Conjugation of clouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	clouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cloutant /klu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		clouté /klu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cloute /klut/	cloutes /klut/	cloute /klut/	cloutons /klu.tɔ̃/	cloutez /klu.te/	cloutent /klut/
	imperfect	cloutais /klu.tɛ/	cloutais /klu.tɛ/	cloutait /klu.tɛ/	cloutions /klu.tjɔ̃/	cloutiez /klu.tje/	cloutaient /klu.tɛ/
	past historic2	cloutai /klu.te/	cloutas /klu.ta/	clouta /klu.ta/	cloutâmes /klu.tam/	cloutâtes /klu.tat/	cloutèrent /klu.tɛʁ/
	future	clouterai /klu.tʁe/	clouteras /klu.tʁa/	cloutera /klu.tʁa/	clouterons /klu.tʁɔ̃/	clouterez /klu.tʁe/	clouteront /klu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	clouterais /klu.tʁɛ/	clouterais /klu.tʁɛ/	clouterait /klu.tʁɛ/	clouterions /klu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	clouteriez /klu.tə.ʁje/	clouteraient /klu.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	cloute /klut/	cloutes /klut/	cloute /klut/	cloutions /klu.tjɔ̃/	cloutiez /klu.tje/	cloutent /klut/
	imperfect2	cloutasse /klu.tas/	cloutasses /klu.tas/	cloutât /klu.ta/	cloutassions /klu.ta.sjɔ̃/	cloutassiez /klu.ta.sje/	cloutassent /klu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cloute /klut/	—	cloutons /klu.tɔ̃/	cloutez /klu.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• clouté
• clouer

Further reading

• “clouter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• clôture, clôturé