clammy
Speech parts
1. clammy - Adjective
3. clammy - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
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a clammy handshake
clammy weather
a dank cellar
dank rain forests
All of the extra blood is moved into the body’s large muscles to help it run away, so the hands and feet get cold and clammy.
It's impossible not to hear echoes of Soho stalwarts — Hannah Gadsby, Kieran Hodgson, Richard Gadd — reverberate off the clammy walls.