"clampy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From clamp + -y.",
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      "form": "more clampy",
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      "form": "most clampy",
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  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Susan Blackaby Nest, Nook & Cranny, https://books.google.ru/books?id=YzuKGDXIKZQC&pg=PA16&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVqdGqtpDLAhUD63IKHRLuBEA4ChDoAQg0MAU#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false",
          "text": "The hermit crab must somehow sqeeze, His clampy claws and knobby knees"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Laura Morrigan, Woof at the Door, https://books.google.ru/books?id=kSerwpK7So8C&pg=PT30&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNo4q2wJDLAhUlk3IKHYCrAQY4FBDoAQgaMAA#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false",
          "text": "She held up the little metal clampy thing and squeezed the ends together."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Eliza Gordon, Must Love Otters, https://books.google.ru/books?id=_cWvAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT39&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNo4q2wJDLAhUlk3IKHYCrAQY4FBDoAQggMAE#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false",
          "text": "The coffee table is a cluttered smorgasbord of medical shit - tubes and tapes and bags and scissors and clampy things."
        }
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        "Resembling a clamp; clamp-like."
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        {
          "text": "His hands grew clampy with cold.",
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        {
          "text": "2005, Emmanuel Acheta, Duel With a Dictator. An African Woman's Political Struggle, https://books.google.ru/books?id=0nseN228J-QC&pg=PA154&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVqdGqtpDLAhUD63IKHRLuBEA4ChDoAQhAMAc#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=falseː\nHer hands were clampy, speech unsure and eyes half-closed."
        },
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          "ref": "2010, Lewis A. Walmsley, Glassidor, https://books.google.ru/books?id=kb7eci6LnDsC&pg=PA112&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVqdGqtpDLAhUD63IKHRLuBEA4ChDoAQg6MAY#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false",
          "text": "The reptiles roared, throwing their heads back in exultation, and threw away their useless weapons, which they could no longer hold efficiently with their clampy hands."
        }
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        "unwieldy, clumsy, hard to wield or control (of hands)."
      ],
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          "clumsy",
          "clumsy"
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      "ipa": "/klæmpi/",
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  "word": "clampy"
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  "etymology_text": "From clamp + -y.",
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    {
      "form": "more clampy",
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    },
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      "form": "most clampy",
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          "ref": "2010, Susan Blackaby Nest, Nook & Cranny, https://books.google.ru/books?id=YzuKGDXIKZQC&pg=PA16&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVqdGqtpDLAhUD63IKHRLuBEA4ChDoAQg0MAU#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false",
          "text": "The hermit crab must somehow sqeeze, His clampy claws and knobby knees"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Laura Morrigan, Woof at the Door, https://books.google.ru/books?id=kSerwpK7So8C&pg=PT30&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNo4q2wJDLAhUlk3IKHYCrAQY4FBDoAQgaMAA#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false",
          "text": "She held up the little metal clampy thing and squeezed the ends together."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Eliza Gordon, Must Love Otters, https://books.google.ru/books?id=_cWvAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT39&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNo4q2wJDLAhUlk3IKHYCrAQY4FBDoAQggMAE#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false",
          "text": "The coffee table is a cluttered smorgasbord of medical shit - tubes and tapes and bags and scissors and clampy things."
        }
      ],
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        "Resembling a clamp; clamp-like."
      ],
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          "text": "His hands grew clampy with cold.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2010, Lewis A. Walmsley, Glassidor, https://books.google.ru/books?id=kb7eci6LnDsC&pg=PA112&dq=clampy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVqdGqtpDLAhUD63IKHRLuBEA4ChDoAQg6MAY#v=onepage&q=clampy&f=false",
          "text": "The reptiles roared, throwing their heads back in exultation, and threw away their useless weapons, which they could no longer hold efficiently with their clampy hands."
        }
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        "unwieldy, clumsy, hard to wield or control (of hands)."
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          "clumsy",
          "clumsy"
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