clammy

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
    — His hands were clammy from fright.
  2. The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.

词形变化

clammier comparative clammiest superlative

词源

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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