clidgy

English

Adjective

clidgy (comparative more clidgy, superlative most clidgy)

  1. Sticky; tacky.
    • 2011, Catherine Storr, The If Game
      When he'd got the objects properly on to his spade and had brushed off some of the clidgy earth, he saw a metal bar, about six inches long, rather like an outsize safety pin, on which were hung three keys of different shapes and sizes.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary