clammyadj.

Brit.

/ˈklami/, U.S.

/ˈklæmi/

Forms: Also Middle English claymy, 1500s–1600s clammye, (1600s clamy).

Etymology: Form-history obscure: first found as claymy 1398–1495, clammy c1425, dates which agree with the first appearance of clam adj.¹, clam v.¹, with which it is now associated in sense. It may have been thence formed with suffix -y suffix¹: compare sticky , clingy . But it is also possible that an earlier *clámig , < Old English clám , mud, sticky clay, cloam n., was shortened to clammy (compare silly , sorry , hallow ), and then associated with clam adj.¹, clam v.¹ Further evidence is wanted.

a. gen. Soft, moist, and sticky; viscous, tenacious, adhesive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective]

thickc888

toughc1000

cleavingc1350

gluey1382

gluish1382

gleiming1387

gummya1398

clammy1398

gleimy1398

viscosec1400

viscousc1400

emplastic?a1425

plastery?c1425

stiffc1430

clamc1440

engleimous?c1475

rawky1509

rich1535

clammish1543

limy1552

strong1560

glutinous1576

cloggy1587

emplastical1590

viscuous1603

plasterish1610

slaba1616

bound1635

viscid1635

lentous1646

spiscious1655

melleous1656

salivarious1656

glutining1658

syrupical1659

glairy1662

gummous1669

gummose1678

mellaginous1681

melligineous1684

pargety1684

sticky1688

sizy1691

dauby1697

syrupy1707

treacly?1734

glaireous1755

flabbyc1780

spissid1782

stodgy1823

waxy1835

teery1848

treacle-like1871

viscoid1877

slauming1904

gooey1906

gloopy1929

gunky1937

gungy1962

yucky1975

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. i. 186 The fyrste chyldhode wythout teeth is yet ful tender and nesshe and qwauy and claymy.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. O iij b An yele is a slymye fyshe, clammy, and specialy a stopper.

1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) i. A vj b It hath blewe floures, the hole herbe is clammy, and hath a stronge sauoure.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiv^v/2 Clammye, tenax, viscosus.

1781 J. White in G. White Let. 9 Sept. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 267 A white fibrous substance resembling spiders webs, or rather raw cotton..was of a very clammy quality.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 365 A soft substance, rather clammy and sweet.

b. Of bread: Doughy. Of soil, earth: Moist and unctuous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > soggy or imperfectly baked

dough-baken?a1450

clammy1530

doughish1556

doughy1578

dough-baked1582

slack-baked1823

sod1836

soggy1868

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > soft or yielding > through excess water

weta900

clammy1530

waterish1540

weeping1577

spongy1652

stagnant1850

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 307/2 Clammy as breed is, nat through baken, pasteux.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. ii. 33 The earth at that tyme beyng but clammie and softe.

1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 44^v, in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre This redde earth is the fattest, and the clammiest of all the rest.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxv. 241 The Oven..not too hot at the first, lest the outside be burnt and the inside clammy.

1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) viii. 131 I followed the herd..through deep clammy ground and high grass.

c. Of liquids: Viscid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective] > specifically of liquids

clammy1541

grumous1665

slabby1676

pithy1876

1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxiii. f. 43^v Great abundaunce of superfluouse humours thycke and clammy.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xiii. 270 No vessels sailing thereon [sc. the Dead Sea], the clammy water being a reall Remora to obstruct their passage.

1720 J. Gay Poet. Wks. (1745) II. 78 Where the long table floats with clammy beer.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 128 Trees.. yielding a clammy juice.

d. Of vapour, perspiration, mist, etc.: Damp, and as it were clinging to the skin.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective] > of vapour, perspiration, mist, etc.

clammy1635

puggya1800

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 97 Clammie Exhalations are scattered abroad in the aire.

1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (x. 21) 173 Thick Darkness..made, I suppose, by such clammy Foggs, that they sensibly affected the Egyptians.

a1703 J. Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 91 When to the margin of the grave we come..Our face is moistened with a clammy sweat.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxv. 346 Stifling in the clammy atmosphere of Soho.

e. Of the skin, etc.: Suffused with sticky damp, e.g. in the death-sweat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [adjective] > wet or clammy

waterya1400

clammyc1425

puggya1800

c1425 Cookery Bks. (1888) 25 Ȝif þin hond waxe clammy.

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 38 His hands are globes made round, there is nothing rugged, clammy, or bowed.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vi. 448 The cold sweat stands Upon his clammy limbs.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 203 The sign of the Cross on his clammy brow.

†2. figurative. Sluggish, lagging (like a clammy slug).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > sluggish or heavy

slowOE

sluggy?c1225

dull1393

slowfulc1400

sluggedc1430

sluggingc1430

slugc1440

sluggishc1450

lithera1500

peakish1519

lumpish1528

sopit1528

loiterous1566

slugring1566

drowsy1570

slow-bellied1576

snailish1581

blate1597

druggly1611

jacent1611

clammy1622

loggish1642

ignave1657

sliving1661

druggle-headed1694

slow-coachish1844

loggy1847

logy1859

tardigradous1866

tardigrade1883

1622 T. Overbury et al. Characters in His Wife (11th impr.) 99 His dull eye, and lowring head, and a certaine clammy benummed pace.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	clammy
释义	clammyadj. Brit. /ˈklami/, U.S. /ˈklæmi/ Forms: Also Middle English claymy, 1500s–1600s clammye, (1600s clamy). Etymology: Form-history obscure: first found as claymy 1398–1495, clammy c1425, dates which agree with the first appearance of clam adj.¹, clam v.¹, with which it is now associated in sense. It may have been thence formed with suffix -y suffix¹: compare sticky , clingy . But it is also possible that an earlier clámig , < Old English clám* , mud, sticky clay, cloam n., was shortened to clammy (compare silly , sorry , hallow ), and then associated with clam adj.¹, clam v.¹ Further evidence is wanted. 1. a. gen. Soft, moist, and sticky; viscous, tenacious, adhesive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective] thickc888 toughc1000 cleavingc1350 gluey1382 gluish1382 gleiming1387 gummya1398 clammy1398 gleimy1398 viscosec1400 viscousc1400 emplastic?a1425 plastery?c1425 stiffc1430 clamc1440 engleimous?c1475 rawky1509 rich1535 clammish1543 limy1552 strong1560 glutinous1576 cloggy1587 emplastical1590 viscuous1603 plasterish1610 slaba1616 bound1635 viscid1635 lentous1646 spiscious1655 melleous1656 salivarious1656 glutining1658 syrupical1659 glairy1662 gummous1669 gummose1678 mellaginous1681 melligineous1684 pargety1684 sticky1688 sizy1691 dauby1697 syrupy1707 treacly?1734 glaireous1755 flabbyc1780 spissid1782 stodgy1823 waxy1835 teery1848 treacle-like1871 viscoid1877 slauming1904 gooey1906 gloopy1929 gunky1937 gungy1962 yucky1975 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. i. 186 The fyrste chyldhode wythout teeth is yet ful tender and nesshe and qwauy and claymy. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. O iij b An yele is a slymye fyshe, clammy, and specialy a stopper. 1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) i. A vj b It hath blewe floures, the hole herbe is clammy, and hath a stronge sauoure. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiv^v/2 Clammye, tenax, viscosus. 1781 J. White in G. White Let. 9 Sept. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 267 A white fibrous substance resembling spiders webs, or rather raw cotton..was of a very clammy quality. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 365 A soft substance, rather clammy and sweet. b. Of bread: Doughy. Of soil, earth: Moist and unctuous. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [adjective] > soggy or imperfectly baked dough-baken?a1450 clammy1530 doughish1556 doughy1578 dough-baked1582 slack-baked1823 sod1836 soggy1868 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > soft or yielding > through excess water weta900 clammy1530 waterish1540 weeping1577 spongy1652 stagnant1850 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 307/2 Clammy as breed is, nat through baken, pasteux. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. ii. 33 The earth at that tyme beyng but clammie and softe. 1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 44^v, in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre This redde earth is the fattest, and the clammiest of all the rest. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxv. 241 The Oven..not too hot at the first, lest the outside be burnt and the inside clammy. 1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) viii. 131 I followed the herd..through deep clammy ground and high grass. c. Of liquids: Viscid. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective] > specifically of liquids clammy1541 grumous1665 slabby1676 pithy1876 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxiii. f. 43^v Great abundaunce of superfluouse humours thycke and clammy. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xiii. 270 No vessels sailing thereon [sc. the Dead Sea], the clammy water being a reall Remora to obstruct their passage. 1720 J. Gay Poet. Wks. (1745) II. 78 Where the long table floats with clammy beer. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 128 Trees.. yielding a clammy juice. d. Of vapour, perspiration, mist, etc.: Damp, and as it were clinging to the skin. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective] > of vapour, perspiration, mist, etc. clammy1635 puggya1800 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 97 Clammie Exhalations are scattered abroad in the aire. 1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (x. 21) 173 Thick Darkness..made, I suppose, by such clammy Foggs, that they sensibly affected the Egyptians. a1703 J. Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 91 When to the margin of the grave we come..Our face is moistened with a clammy sweat. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxv. 346 Stifling in the clammy atmosphere of Soho. e. Of the skin, etc.: Suffused with sticky damp, e.g. in the death-sweat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [adjective] > wet or clammy waterya1400 clammyc1425 puggya1800 c1425 Cookery Bks. (1888) 25 Ȝif þin hond waxe clammy. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 38 His hands are globes made round, there is nothing rugged, clammy, or bowed. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vi. 448 The cold sweat stands Upon his clammy limbs. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 203 The sign of the Cross on his clammy brow. †2. figurative. Sluggish, lagging (like a clammy slug). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > sluggish or heavy slowOE sluggy?c1225 dull1393 slowfulc1400 sluggedc1430 sluggingc1430 slugc1440 sluggishc1450 lithera1500 peakish1519 lumpish1528 sopit1528 loiterous1566 slugring1566 drowsy1570 slow-bellied1576 snailish1581 blate1597 druggly1611 jacent1611 clammy1622 loggish1642 ignave1657 sliving1661 druggle-headed1694 slow-coachish1844 loggy1847 logy1859 tardigradous1866 tardigrade1883 1622 T. Overbury et al. Characters in His Wife (11th impr.) 99 His dull eye, and lowring head, and a certaine clammy benummed pace. 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