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English
Etymology
clog + -y
Adjective
cloggy (comparative cloggier, superlative cloggiest)
- Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
1654, Thomas White, A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love, Paris: The Ninth Discourse, page 100:[…] 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 […]
1837, Journal of Agriculture:[…] the land in many parts was naturally heavy, and even when the digging was proceeding, very cloggy.
1899, Frederick George Jackson, A thousand days in the Arctic:The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily.
- Somewhat clogged or impeded.
a cloggy throat
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