different between cloggy vs claggy

English

Etymology

clog +? -y

Adjective

cloggy (comparative cloggier, superlative cloggiest)

1. Tending to cause clogging due to its texture; lumpy; sticky.
   • 1654, Thomas White, A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love, Paris, The Ninth Discourse, p. 100,^[1]

     […] Nature stirres up all young things, Boyes, and Lambs, and Kitlins, to play and run about, by which they disperse the cloggy humours that otherwise would settle in their joynts […]

   • 1837, Journal of Agriculture

     […] the land in many parts was naturally heavy, and even when the digging was proceeding, very cloggy.

   • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 7,^[2]

     A cloggy sensation of the lukewarm fat of meat is upon me (we dined an hour or two ago), and my head is as heavy as so much lead.
2. Somewhat clogged or impeded.

   a cloggy throat

Derived terms

• clogginess

Anagrams

• coggly

English

Etymology

clag +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæ?i?/

Adjective

claggy (comparative claggier, superlative claggiest)

1. (of mud, tar, glue or the like) Sticky or tacky.
2. (specifically, of a roof in a mine) Adhesive, having coal clinging to it.

Synonyms

• (sticky): agglutinative, tenacious; see also Thesaurus:adhesive

References

• claggy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.