English edit

Etymology edit

From clift +‎ -y.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

clifty (comparative more clifty, superlative most clifty)

  1. (obsolete) Characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 3:
      Down the clifty gorge – its walls of solid sandstone, cloven to the bare heart of the range by the fierce momentum of the waters – the bounding river came.