cledgyadj.
/ˈklɛdʒi/ Of the nature of cledge; clayey; stiff, tenacious, sticky.
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1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1881) i. xviii. iii. 139 The sundrie kinds of moold, as the cledgie or claie.
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 160 Although the waters that run by chalke or cledgie soiles be good.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Clodgy, cledgy, stiff and dirty. Kent.
1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 Projects 110/1 The stiff cledgy land was but little better.
1876 G. L. Gower Surrey Provincialisms (English Dialect Society no.12. Series C: Original glossaries) Cledgy, wet, sticky, of ground. Land is said ‘to work so cledgy’.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Cledgy, stiff and sticky.
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