clyde

¹

[ klahyd ]

noun

, Slang.

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a stupid, inept, or boorish person.
2. the brain or mind.

Clyde

²

[ klahyd ]

noun

1. a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
2. Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic, in SW Scotland. 64 miles (103 km) long.
3. a male given name: a Scottish family name, after the Clyde River.

Clyde

/ klaɪd /

noun

1. Firth of Clyde
   an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
2. a river in S Scotland, rising in South Lanarkshire and flowing northwest to the Firth of Clyde: formerly extensive shipyards. Length: 170 km (106 miles)

Word History and Origins

Origin of clyde¹

Probably generic use of the personal name

Example Sentences

At a news conference Monday, she cited the restaurants Clyde’s and Old Ebbitt Grill.

From Washington Post

Additionally, Protect Freedom PAC has spent $494,000 to help Gurtler while a single-candidate super PAC backing Gurtler has thrown in about $414,000 to support him or hit Clyde.

From FiveThirtyEight

As for Clyde, he’s built a reputation for successfully taking on the Internal Revenue Service after it tried to seize nearly $1 million from him.

From FiveThirtyEight

The campaign arm of the Club for Growth has been very active, spending about $500,000 boosting Gurtler and $653,000 attacking Clyde.

From FiveThirtyEight

However, Gurtler has questioned why Clyde’s business has continued to sell guns to the agency, as that is seemingly at odds with Clyde’s anti-government rhetoric.

From FiveThirtyEight

They unleashed a hail of bullets to rival the final scene in ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’

From The Daily Beast

It has retained a crisis public relations firm, The Clyde Group, and disputed the CIR investigation in other media.

From The Daily Beast

All of them, Tuff and Kellie and Clyde and Elsie, like to take this wherever they go: He died doing what he wanted to do.

From The Daily Beast

“Lane done what not many people do,” Clyde Frost said in front of his home.

From The Daily Beast

“If anything got in the way of a rodeo, like a ball game, the ball game would have to wait,” Clyde Frost said.

From The Daily Beast

The town is built on both sides of the Clyde, which is crossed by fine stone bridges, but seven-eighths of it lie on the north.

From Project Gutenberg

He and I were living “doon the watter,” at Dunoon, on the Clyde, one summer month.

From Project Gutenberg

As many as six of these little vessels made the Clyde their headquarters and sailed at the regattas.

From Project Gutenberg

Largs Regatta in 1892 will long be remembered; it was no flat racing, but real steeplechasing in the Clyde.

From Project Gutenberg

Soon after, in a wilder phase of Clyde weather, 'Mab' and 'Varuna' were caught by a fierce squall and laid down to it.

From Project Gutenberg