clingsome
Adjective
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Adjective
clingsome
- Characterised by clinging or clinginess; clingy; adhesive
- 1907, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 132:
- he loose blouse-like shirt, in an artistic tint of faded green, was made remarkably full, and was of some soft clingsome material, probably flannelette, though this I was unable to get near enough to ascertain decisively.
- 1916, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Content with Flies:
- Presently we saw a tiny, wedge-shaped grey bird, with infinitesimal, clingsome feet, that glided in and out between the branches of the beech hedge like a noiseless, living shuttle.
- 1907, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 132:
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