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clotted, ppl. a.|ˈklɒtɪd|
[f. clot v. + -ed.]
1. a. Gathered into clots, clods, or lumps; coagulated, thickened.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 34 The clotted Mud. 1636Massinger Bashful Lover iii. iii, Wash off The clotted blood. 1801Southey Thalaba vii. xvi, Off he shook the clotted earth. 1870Bryant Iliad I. v. 174.
b. clotted cream: = clouted-cream, q.v.
1878Oxford Bible-Helps 137 The Hebrews..made a kind of clotted cream by subjecting new milk to fermentation.
2. Stuck together in or with clots; covered with clots (of blood, etc.).
1725Pope Odyss. xv. 568 The clotted feathers. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 595 The clotted scourge hangs hardening in the shrouds. a1839Praed Poems (1864) I. 199 With a gash beneath his clotted hair.
3. fig., spec. concentrated, dense; esp. in phr. clotted nonsense.
1674Dryden et al. Notes & Obs. Empress of Morocco 23 Sure the Poet wrote these two Lines aboard some smack in a storm, and being Sea-sick spued up a good Lump of clotted Nonsense at once. 1834Sun 1 Apr. 2/4 Sartor Resartus is what old Dennis used to call ‘a heap of clotted nonsense’. 1885W. B. Yeats in Dublin Univ. Rev. May 83/2 When low the sun sank down in clotted flame Beyond the lake. 1909Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 2/2 This is the kind of talk which has been admirably described as ‘clotted nonsense’. 1940W. Empson Gathering Storm 63, I tried to defend my clotted kind of poetry. 1963Listener 24 Jan. 180/3 A more than usually clotted [television] script. |