clingy
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Etymology edit
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Adjective edit
clingy (comparative clingier, superlative clingiest)
- Having a tendency to cling.
- a clingy minidress
- 2003, Tony Kornheiser, I'm Back for More Cash (Because You Can't Take Two Hundred Newspapers into the Bathroom)[1], page 255:
- I conceded I might have slightly mollified if it had been Wendy Rieger in that clingy leopard skin blouse she wears on Channel 4.
- (informal, usually derogatory) Pathetically attached to, or possessive of someone, usually a significant other.
- a clingy ex-girlfriend who won't stop calling
Synonyms edit
- (all): clinging
- (having a tendency to cling): See also Thesaurus:adhesive or Thesaurus:close-fitting
- (possessive over a lover): overattached
Translations edit
having a tendency to cling
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possessive over another person
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