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Definition of Claggy
1. a. Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.
Definition of Claggy
1. Adjective. (context: of a roof in a mine to which coal clings) adhesive ¹
2. Adjective. sticky or tacky, of mud, tar, glue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Claggy
1. sticky [adj CLAGGIER, CLAGGIEST] - See also: sticky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Claggy
Literary usage of Claggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"CLAG-CANDY, candy, so called on account of its sticky, or claggy nature. ...
claggy, of an adherent, viscid nature. Tar or treacle are thus called ..."
2. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"Hence claggy. Glutinous; sticky." " GLITCH. To stick; to adhere; to become thick
or glutinous. Devon. ... Kent" " claggy. Sticky, as wet clay. North." 36. ..."
3. Contributions to the History of the English Gutturals Sounds by Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1899)
"claggy, 'sticky.' Durham, Palgrave, 1896. Riggy, ' ridgey.' Sag, ' to bend down
in the middle ... claggy, 'sticky, like pitch.' £»| }' to sprinkle.' Egg on. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"claggy, adj.—Sticky, clogging. ... makes the ground so claggy. CLAM, v.—To seize,
catch hold of, hold fast. Now then clam hold on it. ..."
5. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"Filled with slippery, adhesive moisture, as heavy, dirty footpaths. " The roads
be so claggy, I am welly maul'd to pieces. ..."
6. Yorkshire Folk-talk: With Characteristics of Those who Speak it in the North by Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris (1892)
"claggy, adj. C. Sticky, very commonly applied to the roads, esp. at the breaking
up of a frost Ex.—It's claggy deed for t' hosses ..."
7. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"The name for treacle-ball among schoolboys. claggy, sticky, like pitch. "
Desperate claggy," very adhesive. To CLAME, to stick, ..."
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