clumpy
Forming or tending to form clumps.
Adjective
- Forming or tending to form clumps.
- Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […] - 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
- Resembling a clump.
- Clompy; with heavy footfalls.
- Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear. - 1920, Eleanor H. Porter, Mary Marie:
Origin
Etymology tree English clump Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English clumpy From clump + -y.