clumpy
adj/ˈklʌmpi/
Etymology From clump + -y.
1
Forming or tending to form clumps.
- Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […]1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
2
Resembling a clump.
3
Clompy; with heavy footfalls.
- Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear.1920, Eleanor H. Porter, Mary Marie:
- Derived terms
- clumpily, clumpiness, nonclumpy