clumpy

Etymology

clump + -y

adj

  1. Forming or tending to form clumps.
    Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […] 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
  2. Resembling a clump.
  3. Clompy; with heavy footfalls.
    Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear. 1920, Eleanor H. Porter, Mary Marie

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