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clog +‎ -y

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cloggy (comparative cloggier, superlative cloggiest)

  1. Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
    • 1654, Thomas White, A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love[1], Paris: The Ninth Discourse, page 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.
    • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, [], published 1850, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1899, Frederick George Jackson, A thousand days in the Arctic:
      The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily.
  2. Somewhat clogged or impeded.
    a cloggy throat

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