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clammy

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈklæmi/

Definition of clammy

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
    “His hands were clammy from fright.”
    “The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much”
    “Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.”
    “Jenny Lee reached out and took hold of the man’s hand. It was cold and clammy, a deadlike feeling.”
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adj

  1. Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
    “His hands were clammy from fright.”
    “The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much”
    “Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.”
    “Jenny Lee reached out and took hold of the man’s hand. It was cold and clammy, a deadlike feeling.”
  2. The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.

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Etymology

From Middle English clam (“viscous, sticky; slimy”) + -y, from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Compare German klamm (“clammy”) and klemmen (“to be stuck, stick”). See also clam.

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