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clammy

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clam·my  (klm)
adj. clam·mi·er, clam·mi·est
1. Disagreeably moist, sticky, and cold to the touch: a clammy handshake.
2. Damp and unpleasant: clammy weather.
3. Uneasy; apprehensive: The ghost town gave us a clammy feeling.

[Middle English, sticky, probably from clam (from Old English, mud, clay) or from Middle Low German klam, stickiness.]

clammi·ly adv.
clammi·ness n.

clammy
Adjective
[-mier, -miest] unpleasantly moist and sticky [Old English clǣman to smear]
clammily adv
clamminess n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.clammy - unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"
wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"

clammy
adjective 1. moist, sweating, damp, sticky, sweaty, slimy
adjective 2. damp, humid, dank, muggy, close
Translations
clammy [ˈklæmɪ] adj (= cold) → frío y húmedo (= sticky); pegajoso

clammy [ˈklæmɪ] adjhumide et froid(e) (au toucher)moite

clammy [ˈklæmɪ] adjfeucht

clammy [ˈklæmɪ] adj [weather] → caldo/a umido/a; [hands] → viscido/a

clammy
adj clammy [ˈklӕmi]
damp and sticky clammy hands. klam, klewerig بارِدٌ وَدَبِق влажен vlhký a lepkavý klam feucht und klebrig γλοιώδης, κολλώδης sudoroso, pegajoso kleepuv سرد و تر tahmea moite לַח וְדָבִיק चिपचिपा, लसलसा vlažan, ljepljiv nyirkos lembab þvalur appiccicaticcio べとべとする 축축한, 끈적끈적한 lipnus lipīgs berlengas klam klam lepki pegajoso umed влажный и липкий vlhký lepljiv vlažan fuktig (kall) och klibbig ที่ชื้นหรือเย็นมาก nemli ve yapışkan, rutubetli 滑膩的 липкий چپچپا ، لجلجا ẩm ướt 腻的


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A CANDIDATE canvassing his district met a Nurse wheeling a Baby in a carriage, and, stooping, imprinted a kiss upon the Baby's clammy muzzle.
The clammy coldness of his skin made Emily shudder, as they shook hands.
At such times I could see his villanous face plainly, and, when the sulphur from the matches irritated his lungs, between the raspy cough that followed and the clammy mud in which I was lying, I confess I shivered harder than ever.
 
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