cloggy

cloggy adjective: tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.

Adjective

cloggy (comparative cloggier, superlative cloggiest)

Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
- […] 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 […]1654, Thomas White, A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love, Paris: The Ninth Discourse, page 100
- […] the land in many parts was naturally heavy, and even when the digging was proceeding, very cloggy.1837, Journal of Agriculture
Somewhat clogged or impeded.
- a cloggy throat

چپچپا, گلٹی دار

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.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […]...
The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily.1899, Frederick George Jackson, A thousand days in the Arctic:

comparative	cloggier
superlative	cloggiest

From clog + -y.

What does cloggy mean?: Cloggy means tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
What is cloggy in Urdu?: Cloggy in Urdu is چپچپا, گلٹی دار. See Cloggy meaning in Urdu.
How do you use cloggy in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is cloggy?: Cloggy is an adjective.

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