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-   obsolete  imp. of cling .
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- verb obsolete  Past participle of cling 
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Examples
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								Simply cut clong either side of it by setting the chicken in an upright position or use the shears to cut through the bones. Chicken with Paprika Katie Khoury 2008 
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								Simply cut clong either side of it by setting the chicken in an upright position or use the shears to cut through the bones. Archive 2008-12-01 Katie Khoury 2008 
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								Finding his injunction disregarded, he stepped forward and brought it down one-handed on the intruder's head with a dull clong! Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997 
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								The MacKenzie jerked back, looking startled for a moment, then grinned with a flash of white teeth, and banged his blade flat on top of Jamie's head, with a resounding clong. Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992 
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								And as she clong to him and cried, her patient harte with joy did brast, A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872 
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								The clong of the small schoolhouse bell summoned them. Catapult Magazine Amanda Cleary Eastep 2010 
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								The clong of the small schoolhouse bell summoned them. Catapult Magazine Amanda Cleary Eastep 2010 
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								The clong of the small schoolhouse bell summoned them. Catapult Magazine Amanda Cleary Eastep 2010 
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								In many of these markets, denial reigns as owners clong to the belief that the slump is temporary, their paper losses transitory. Minyanville 2009 
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								I recently had to clone a hard disk so I naturally turned to solutions such as Acronis True Image, but I discovered these did not work (the start-up disk claimed the clong was 'complete' when it blatantly wasn't) and I also tried copying the partition using gParted in Ubuntu but this froze at about 3\%, due to corrupt data, which seemed not to be caught in a chkdsk. 
bilby commented on the word clong
My first girlfriend was a bit clongy.
January 3, 2016