cloggy

English

Etymology

From clog ‎ -y.

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• cloggily
• clogginess

Anagrams

• coggly