squidginess
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clay — [OE] Clay is named from its consistency – its stickiness, its squidginess, its capacity for being smeared. Its ultimate source is the Indo European base *gloi , *glei , *gli , from which English also gets glue and gluten. From it was descended… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
squidgy — /ˈskwɪdʒi/ (say skwijee) adjective Colloquial 1. unpleasantly damp; clammy: *Squidgy slime mould with just a single cell to its name has the intelligence to find the shortest way around a maze, Japanese researchers say. –aap news, 2000. 2. (of… …
clay — [OE] Clay is named from its consistency – its stickiness, its squidginess, its capacity for being smeared. Its ultimate source is the Indo European base *gloi , *glei , *gli , from which English also gets glue and gluten. From it was descended… … Word origins
