adj., -mi·er, -mi·est.
- Disagreeably moist, sticky, and cold to the touch: a clammy handshake.
- Damp and unpleasant: clammy weather.
- Uneasy; apprehensive: The ghost town gave us a clammy feeling.
[Middle English, sticky, probably from clam (from Old English, mud, clay) or from Middle Low German klam, stickiness.]
clammily clam'mi·ly adv.clamminess clam'mi·ness n.
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