adjectiveadjective claggier, adjective claggiest

• 1British dialect Tending to form clots; sticky.

  ‘claggy mud’

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  • ‘They're only dancing slowly, mind, because their feet are sticking to the claggy mat.’
  • ‘By the time they got to the dining room, the dumplings were claggy and stuck to the steamers and the molluscs were all gone.’
  • ‘We left them for a field side path that optimistically is a margin path in the making, but was claggy on the boots.’
  • ‘When it's straight out of the fridge it's like claggy cotton wool, so allow it to sit out in a cool place for 15 minutes before using it.’
  • ‘This is especially useful if the garden is in a cold spot and prone to late frosts or if wet weather has made the soil claggy.’
  • ‘But it's hard to rush when your feet are claggy with thick black clay mud from trying to drag the mailman, on his weekly run from Cloncurry, out of the sticky quagmire that the main road to Burketown turns into every wet season.’
  • ‘Most of the traditional rugby powers - the ones that have made the last eight of this World Cup - have a slightly claggy, earthbound feel about them.’

  Synonyms

  glutinous, viscous, viscid
• 2British dialect (of weather) damp and overcast or misty.

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  • ‘a classic claggy day in the mountains spent getting soaked and not seeing anything’

  Synonyms

  moist, moistened, wettish, dampened, dampish

  cloudy, clouded, clouded over, overclouded, sunless, darkened, dark, grey, black, leaden, heavy, dull, murky, dirty, misty, hazy, foggy, louring, threatening, menacing, promising rain, dismal, dreary, cheerless, sombre

  hazy, foggy, cloudy, smoggy, steamy, murky, smoky

  1. 2.1Warm and uncomfortably humid or airless.
     More example sentences

     • ‘I'm escaping London's claggy heat for the sea breezes of the south coast’
     Synonyms

     muggy, close, sultry, sticky, steamy, oppressive, airless, stifling, suffocating, stuffy, clammy, soupy, heavy, fuggy, like a Turkish bath, like a sauna