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Definition of Clingers
1. clinger [n] - See also: clinger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clingers
Literary usage of Clingers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of English Thought: A Study in the Economic Interpretation by Simon Nelson Patten (1899)
"The irreconcilable differences that for two centuries have kept the stalwarts
apart from the sensualists and clingers, have enabled the mugwumps to govern ..."
2. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"There are some that partake of two principles, and are both climbers and clingers.
The creepers are a large class. The twiners are a large class, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"clingers ' spring from ' local ' environments ; ' Sensualists ' appear when
environments become richer in objects; they break down local traditions and ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Viewed in this light, English society has consisted of four great classes— '
clingers, Sensualists. Stalwarts, Mugwumps' (23-32). ' clingers ' spring from ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Knee-breeches were just going out of fashion when I was a little boy, and calf-
clingers (that is, trousers made to fit the leg as tight as a worsted ..."
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