clitty
adjEtymology From the old dialectal verb clit + -y (adjectival suffix).
- This yur pudden's proper clitty, sure 'nough - I zim tis 'most like putty.[…]1875, Frederick Thomas Elworthy, The Dialect of West Somerset: A Paper Read Before the Philological Society, January 15, 1875, page 141:
- I'm vexed tha keaks be clitty.1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim (fict.name.), Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon, pages 29-30:
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- The snow seemed to club the land, which got ‘clitty’ and worked badly for a considerable time afterwards.1897 January 30th, Evesham Journal, quoted in the EDD