clotty

C3L1O1T1T1Y4

adjective

Full of clots, or clods.

OriginMiddle English clotty →
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Meanings

adjectiveclotty (comparative more clotty, superlative most 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

Origin

  1. Middle Englishclotty
  2. Englishclotty

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

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Chicago

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