clatch

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It is nothing more than a coffee clatch / hen party.

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  1. Anything thrown for the purpose of daubing. [Scots.]
  2. Mire raked together into heaps on streets or roadsides.
  3. To finish (a piece of work) in a careless and hurried way; botch.

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  • It is nothing more than a coffee clatch / hen party. —  Latest Articles
  • Sandra Pralong, a member of the so-called "group of intellectuals for intercultural dialogue" much preferred a multilinguistic option for Europe, and suggested that every European should "adopt" another language that would be his or her second mother tongue - a key recommendation of her clatch of boffins. —  EUobserver.com - Headline News
  • It had become a popular coffee clatch spot in the mornings for a number of groups. —  RSS Feed
  • She knows her HYPOCRISY will anger people so it's time to end the coffee clatch idea of replacing Hitlery. —  Latest Articles
  • Tom Jenkins said an old woman wanted to see me shocking, and I gave him a clatch on his ear, to teach him not to call a young woman like you an old woman. —  Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. from clatch, v.
  2. Scots, also sklatch. Cf. clatch.
  3. apparently an accommodation of calash, q. v.
 

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