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Definition of Clam up
1. Verb. Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent. "The children shut up when their father approached"
Antonyms: Open Up
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
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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