clitty

Poorly or imperfectly set (of bread, cement, soil after rain, etc)

Adjective

  1. Poorly or imperfectly set (of bread, cement, soil after rain, etc)
    • This yur pudden's proper clitty, sure 'nough - I zim tis 'most like putty.[…] - 1875, Frederick Thomas Elworthy, The Dialect of West Somerset: A Paper Read Before the Philological Society, January 15, 1875, page 141:
    • I'm vexed tha keaks be clitty. - 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim (fict.name.), Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon, pages 29-30:
    • The snow seemed to club the land, which got ‘clitty’ and worked badly for a considerable time afterwards. - 1897 January 30th, Evesham Journal, quoted in the EDD

Origin

From the old dialectal verb clit + -y (adjectival suffix).

Noun

  1. The clitoris; clit.
  2. A penis likened to a clitoris, especially in terms of smallness.

    Synonyms: clit

Origin

Etymology tree English clit Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English clitty From clit + -y (diminutive suffix).

Forms

clitties

Derived

clitty litter