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clammy

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clammy/ˈklami/

▶adjective (clammier, clammiest) unpleasantly damp and sticky or slimy.

■ (of air) cold and damp.

– derivatives
clammily adverb,
clamminess noun.

– origin ME: from dial. clam ‘to be sticky or adhere’, of Gmc origin; rel. to clay.

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