1. Characterized by or of the nature of clogs, blocks or clumps; knotty, lumpy.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, ccxxxviii. § 6. 590. The roote is great, thicke, and tuberous, consisting of many cloggie parcels.
1869. Daily News, 7 Dec., 5/3. The most vulgar and cloggy hind-quarters that the heart of breeder can conceive.
2. Apt to clog; sticky.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 827/2. In cloggie mires, and foule filthie waies.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks., I. 416 (R.). Some grosser and cloggy parts are retained.
1845. [Emma Robinson], Whitehall, xvi. 110. The ale is very good and cloggy.
3. Loaded with or full of clogging matter.
1658. Cokaine, Trappolin, Poems (1669), 472. Hair … Cloggy with sweat and blood.
1807–17. Tannahill, Coggie, Poet. Wks. (1846), 141. It gars the wheels of life run light Though e’er sae doilt and cloggie.
