cloggy

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Definition of cloggy

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
    “[…] Nature stirres up all young things, Boyes, and Lambs, and Kitlins, to play and run about, by which they disperse the cloggy humours that otherwise would settle in their joynts […]”
    “[…] the land in many parts was naturally heavy, and even when the digging was proceeding, very cloggy.”
    “A cloggy sensation of the lukewarm fat of meat is upon me (we dined an hour or two ago), and my head is as heavy as so much lead.”
    “The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily.”
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adj

  1. Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
    “[…] Nature stirres up all young things, Boyes, and Lambs, and Kitlins, to play and run about, by which they disperse the cloggy humours that otherwise would settle in their joynts […]”
    “[…] the land in many parts was naturally heavy, and even when the digging was proceeding, very cloggy.”
    “A cloggy sensation of the lukewarm fat of meat is upon me (we dined an hour or two ago), and my head is as heavy as so much lead.”
    “The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily.”
  2. Somewhat clogged or impeded.
    “a cloggy throat”

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Etymology

From clog + -y.

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