Cloggy

Origin

clog + -y

Full definition of cloggy

Adjective

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 ArcticThe snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily.

Derived terms

• clogginess