claggy
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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From New Labour to the coalition government of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and beyond - she suggests there has been a claggy consensus.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2022
A Mini Cheddar sandwich turns to claggy putty in the mouth.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2019
All that said, there was something ineffably comforting about that bottle of warm, claggy milk every morning.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2012
The corpulent, claggy, juicy or heavy, the sultry, torrid or tactile, perhaps even the truly solid: there are no examples here.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2011
Cu. claggy, adhesive, clog, to stick to, O. E. clæg, from which N. Eng. clay.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
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