cloggy
Adjective
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Adjective
cloggy (comparative cloggier, superlative cloggiest)
- Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
- 1654, Thomas White (scholar), A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love, Paris, The Ninth Discourse, p. 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.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 7,
- 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.
- 1654, Thomas White (scholar), A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love, Paris, The Ninth Discourse, p. 100,
- Somewhat clogged or impeded.
- a cloggy throat
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