Updated June 2026
A dialectal variant of ahold; gripping or holding on.
“The child clung aholt of her mother's skirt.”
a·holt
"Aholt" uses 5 different letters, which makes it efficient for eliminating options. Its 2 vowels balance the consonants.
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