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clotty

clotty adjective: full of clots, or clods.

Adjective

clotty (comparative more clotty, superlative most clotty)

  1. Full of clots, or clods.
    • 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.1830, The Veterinarian

Forms of clotty

comparativemore clotty
superlativemost clotty

Origin of clotty

From Middle English clotty, equivalent to clot + -y. Doublet of cloddy. Compare German klotzig (“bulky, massive, huge”).

Words formed from clotty

Questions about clotty

What does clotty mean?
Clotty means full of clots, or clods.
What part of speech is clotty?
Clotty is an adjective.

Words near clotty in the dictionary

  1. clotting time
  2. clotting times
  3. clottings
  4. clottish
  5. clottishness
  6. clotty
  7. cloture
  8. clotured
  9. clotures
  10. cloturing
  11. clotweed

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