clotty
adjEtymology From Middle English clotty, equivalent to clot + -y. Compare German klotzig (“bulky, massive, huge”).
1
Full of clots, or clods.
- When it was brought to the school it discharged from its right nostril, a whitish, viscid, clotty matter, which, although of little consistence, strongly adhered to the sides of the nostril.1830, The Veterinarian:
- Derived terms
- clottiness