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Definition of Cloggy
1. Adjective. (used of soil) compact and fine-grained. "The clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
Definition of Cloggy
1. a. Clogging, or having power to clog.
Definition of Cloggy
1. Adjective. Tending to cause clogging. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cloggy
1. clogging or able to clog [adj -GIER, -GIEST] : CLOGGILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloggy
Literary usage of Cloggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"Ihe chalk is stated to have contained Hints, all but the last 10 ft. The bottom
15 ft. ot" the flinty chalk is described as blue and cloggy. ..."
2. Transactions by Johnson Society, Glasgow Archaeological Society (1868)
"... only two months previously, Mr. Thomas cloggy had been appointed by the latter
body to the Mastership. The Burgh Record is as follows:— "8th November,. ..."
3. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"Modem Husbandman, ULi.. cloggy. Sticky (HaL). ' Our high cloggy cold situations,
which used to bo called the alps of Hertfordshire, by the lato Dr. ..."
4. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"... let no music go afore your child to Church." Ben Jonson's Tale of a Tuli.
Brand's Pop. Antiq. CLOG, To cloy, to satiate. cloggy, Heavy, fat, " shoe's a ..."
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