clottedadj.
/ˈklɒtɪd/ 1.
a. Gathered into clots, clods, or lumps; coagulated, thickened.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [adjective] > coagulating > coagulated
liveryeOE
livered?a1300
coagulatec1386
curdya1398
clotteredc1405
curdeda1425
quailed1440
congealed1541
clustereda1547
cloddered1558
clodded1562
cluttered1577
quarry1587
curdled1590
quarred1599
settled1600
clotted1605
coagulated1633
curdly1664
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 34 The clotted mud.
a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover iii. iii. 203 in 3 New Playes (1655) Wash off The clotted blood.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. vii. 62 Off he shook the clotted earth.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. v. 174.
b. clotted cream n. = clouted cream at cream n.2 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > cream > clotted cream
cloutsc1430
clouted cream1542
buttercream1658
scald cream1791
clotted cream1878
1878 Oxford Bible-Helps 137 The Hebrews..made a kind of clotted cream by subjecting new milk to fermentation.
2. Stuck together in or with clots; covered with clots (of blood, etc.).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > clogged or stuck together with dirt > [adjective]
filthy-feltered1581
gummy1640
cloggy1658
clodded1688
clotted1726
pinny1890
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 568 The clotted feathers.
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 595 The clotted scourge hangs hardening in the shrouds.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 199 With a gash beneath his clotted hair.
3. figurative, spec. concentrated, dense; esp. in clotted nonsense.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [adjective] > make (more) dense or solid > by compaction or compression
compressedc1374
compacta1398
hard-pressed1562
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condensed1606
compress1647
constipated1647
confert1661
clotted1674
noddena1864
tabloid1890
1674 J. Dryden et al. Notes Empress of Morocco 23 Sure the Poet wrote these two Lines aboard some smack in a storm, and being Sea-sick spued up a good Lump of clotted Nonsense at once.
1834 Sun 1 Apr. 2/4 Sartor Resartus is what old Dennis used to call ‘a heap of clotted nonsense’.
1885 W. B. Yeats in Dublin Univ. Rev. May 83/2 When low the sun sank down in clotted flame Beyond the lake.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 2/2 This is the kind of talk which has been admirably described as ‘clotted nonsense’.
1940 W. Empson Gathering Storm 63 I tried to defend my clotted kind of poetry.
1963 Listener 24 Jan. 180/3 A more than usually clotted [television] script.
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