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Unpleasantly damp and sticky
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clammy
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clammy \Clam"my\, a. [Compar. Clammier ; superl. Clammiest .] Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"soft and sticky," late 14c., probably from Middle English clam "viscous, sticky, muddy" (mid-14c.), from Old English clæm "mud, sticky clay," from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz "clay" (cognates: Flemish klammig , Low German klamig "sticky, damp," Old English ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" [syn: dank ] [also: clammiest , clammier ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN hand ▪ Nigel of the clammy hands and Peter of the bow legs and disappearing chin? ▪ They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ As soon as the interview ...
Usage examples of clammy.
She picked the clothes clean of all visible bugs, covered herself with antifungal powder until she looked like something that was ready for the deep fat fryer, and forced herself into the clammy outfit.
As in other Atlantan districts of London, Feed lines had been worked into the sinews of the place, coursing through utility tunnels, clinging to the clammy undersides of bridges, and sneaking into buildings through small holes bored in the foundations.
I took him by his hand, it was clammy with sweat, and led him through the open wrought-iron gate, and there in the gateway the two of us, the keeper of my drums and I, the drummer, possibly his drummer, ran into Leo Schugger, who like us believed in paradise.
In the cold grey light, men pulled wet clothes from soggy saddlebags and spread them out to dry, then lined up at the provision wagons for clammy flatbread and sopping strips of dried beef.
The pilot went pale, the crew whispered curses and Glassman felt clammy, his heart pounding in his chest.
They had barely closed the door of their first hotel room in Jakarta before they were stripping off their clammy, wrinkled airplane clothes and falling as one between cool, clean laundered-to-be-defiled sheets.
She shivered at the cool night against her clammy skin and drew on her shortcoat and boots.
I could not have slept over a quarter of an hour when I was suddenly awakened by the passing of some cold and clammy thing across my forehead.
Instead he clambered up my leg, and--gods help me--shoved his hand into my breeches, his cold, clammy palm wrapping around the still unbudging ring, my protuberance now his only means of support.
Under the coat she was wearing layers of old clammy cardigans, the stitches sagging, and the same skimpy dress as she had worn days before.
There was just the clammy green heat of the forest enfolding me, and even the ever-present danger from the chicleros seemed remote.
Sanner enthused as he led them through gathering curtains of pale, clammy mist.
Richard was sweating, in a clammy cold sweat, and digging his fingernails deep into his palms.
The mist hung in gray, ragged curtains from the fronds of the huge tree-ferns, condensed in clammy drops that spattered down to the apron from cranes and gantries, from the overhead structures of machines that still functioned, somehow, in spite of their being overgrown with densely intertwined creepers.
But the moment he stopped, the ghouls would drag him down with their clammy hands and start feasting.