cloggy

comparative cloggier · superlative cloggiest

1. Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.

   The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily.

   1899, Frederick George Jackson, A thousand days in the Arctic

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   […] 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

   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, […], published 1850, →OCLC

2. Somewhat clogged or impeded.

   a cloggy throat