clammy

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Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms

His hands were clammy from fright.

Something that is clammy is unpleasantly damp or sticky. My shirt was clammy with sweat. feeling unpleasantly wet, cold, and sticky (Probably from clam (11-19 centuries), from clAman)
unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests
{s} cool and damp, humid and sticky
unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"
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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clammy locust
small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds
clamminess
{n} ropiness, toughness, stickiness
clammier
comparative of clammy
clammiest
superlative of clammy
clammily
In a clammy manner
clammily
dankly, in a cold and damp manner
clamminess
unpleasant wetness
clamminess
{i} dampness; stickiness; coolness
clamminess
the state of being clammy
clamminess
State of being clammy or viscous
clammy
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