Brewer's: Cloten

A vindictive lout who wore his dagger in his mouth. He fell in love with Imogen, but his love was not reciprocated (Shakespeare Cymbeline.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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