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clitchin' n, usu pl Cp OED clitch v 2 'to crook, bend a joint'; EDD clitch sb2 I 'groin; the fork part of the leg or arm' Gl W Do. Groin; that part of the leg behind the knee.
   1937 DEVINE 14 ~ That point on the side of the body indicating the right length of a shirt. T 222-66 This friend was one day admiring a woman's hair as she was brushing it, a patient. And the patient said, 'Oh that's nothing now. You should have seen first when I was married it came right down to my clitchin's. C 66-12 Wet in the clitchin's—used when someone got wet to their knee joints either by rain or snow. P 229-66 The thigh rubbers comes right up to his clitchin's.

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