a. [f. CLING v. + -Y1.] Apt to cling; sticky, adhesive, tenacious.
1708–15. Kersey, Clingy, apt to cling, sticky.
1796. Pearson, in Phil. Trans., LXXXVI. 419. It was too soft, and, as the artists terms it, clingy, to receive the impression. Ibid., 436. To render copper less clingy, or more brittle.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 32. The land … of a very wet, cold and clingy nature.
