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Webster 1913 Edition


Cloggy

Clog′gy

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Adj.
Clogging, or having power to clog.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cloggy

CLOGGY

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Adj.
That clogs, or has power to clog; thick; gross.

Definition 2024


cloggy

cloggy

English

Adjective

cloggy (comparative cloggier, superlative cloggiest)

  1. Tending to cause clogging.
    • 1837, Journal of Agriculture
      [] the land in many parts was naturally heavy, and even when the digging was proceeding, very cloggy.
    • 1899, Frederick George Jackson, A thousand days in the Arctic
      The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily.
  2. Somewhat clogged or impeded.
    a cloggy throat

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