Dictionary

cloggy en · ADJ

Etymology

From clog + -y.

Meanings

1. Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
   • The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily. 1899, Frederick George Jackson, A thousand days in the Arctic:
   • […] the land in many parts was naturally heavy, and even when the digging was proceeding, very cloggy. 1837, Journal of Agriculture:
   • 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. 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
   • […] 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:
2. Somewhat clogged or impeded.
   • a cloggy throat

Forms

Deriveds

cloggily · clogginess

Translations (1)

eo blokema (tending to cause clogging)