cloggy

Etymology

clog + -y

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 […] 1654, Thomas White, A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love, Paris: The Ninth Discourse, page 100
    […] the land in many parts was naturally heavy, and even when the digging was proceeding, very cloggy. 1837, Journal of Agriculture
    The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily. 1899, Frederick George Jackson, A thousand days in the Arctic
  2. Somewhat clogged or impeded.
    a cloggy throat

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