clinchpoop

English

Noun

clinchpoop (plural clinchpoops)

1. (obsolete, derogatory) Alternative spelling of clenchpoop
   • 1949, Thomas Bertram Costain, High Towers:

     There was an unctuous quality to his voice and a description of him which she had once heard the baron use went through her mind: "that pompous old clinchpoop."

   • 1983, Charles Larson, The Portland Murders:

     "Oh, don't deny it!" Isabel cried dramatically. "There's a word for me in Old English! Clinchpoop!"
     "Clinchpoop?"
     "I am a clinchpoop! A clod and a boor and a—"
     "You're not a clinchpoop."
     "And do you know what the height of clinchpoopery is? It's when you realize the other guy's right but you won't say so because you're too bloody selfish!"

   • 2006, Roger McGough, “Prayer to Saint Grobianos, the Patron Saint of Coarse People”, in Selected Poems, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 152:

     Have pity on we poor wretched sinners / We blatherskites and lopdoodles / Lickspiggots and clinchpoops / Quibberdicks and Quakebuttocks.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:clenchpoop.