English

Proper noun

Clois ‎(uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) The ship of characters Clark Kent and Lois Lane from the television series Smallville.
   • 2008, Jennifer Gillan, Television and New Media: Must-Click TV, Routledge (2011), ISBN 9781135965679, page 46:

     The same thing occurred among Smallville's shippers who were divided among supporting Clana (Clark/Lana), Clois (Clark/Lois), Chlark (Chloe/Clark), with some slash fans rooting for the same sex pairing Clex (Clark/Lex).

   • 2010 May 9, Christopher M., “Re: Smallville Season 10”, in rec.arts.tv, Usenet:

     I think even Clois fans would go along with that, since she dumped Clark.

   • 2014, Cory Barker, "'Chlark' vs 'Clois': Shippers, Anti-Fans, and Anti-Fan Fans in Smallville", in Mapping Smallville: Critical Essays on the Series and Its Characters (eds. Cory Barker, Chris Ryan, & Myc Wiatrowski), McFarland & Company (2014), ISBN 9780786494644, page 182:

     Although "Escape" tackles these kinds of issues more heavily than the typical Smallville episode and thus could have prompted a more spirited output, other episode sub-forums are also filled with Chlark and Clois fans discussing the validity of their favorite relationship.

Irish

Verb

clois ‎(present analytic cloiseann, future analytic cloisfidh, verbal noun cloisteáil, past participle cloiste)

1. (Munster, parts of Connacht) to hear

Conjugation

Synonyms

• cluin (Ulster; parts of Connacht)

Mutation

References

• “clois(t)id” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “cloisim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Franz Nikolaus Finck, 1899, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, 155.
• Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 215.
• "clois" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɔi̯s/

Verb

clois

1. first-person singular preterite of cloi

Mutation