clotty
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English clotty, equivalent to clot + -y. Compare German klotzig (“bulky, massive, huge”).
Adjective
editclotty (comparative more clotty, superlative most clotty)
- Full of clots, or clods.
- 1830, The Veterinarian:
- When it was brought to the school it discharged from its right nostril, a whitish, viscid, clotty matter, which, although of little consistence, strongly adhered to the sides of the nostril.