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Clammy

//ˈklæmi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.

    "His hands were clammy from fright."

  2. 2
    The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.
Adjective
  1. 1
    unpleasantly cool and humid wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English clam (“viscous, sticky; slimy”) + -y, from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Compare German klamm (“clammy”) and klemmen (“to be stuck, stick”). See also clam.

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