See clenchy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Personally, I've experienced Hell, for just a couple of minutes. My version is this itchy/clenchy feeling in the stomach and all across your skin, where we can't itch it or touch whatever it is, but you feel something *gnawing* at you.",
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"text": "I can't stand bananas either. I too have literally vomited from the smell, for some reason, especially in the morning. It doesn't help that everytime^([sic]) I smell them, I get sense-memories of that slimy texture in my mouth, and just start to get that clenchy trying-not-to-hurl feeling in my throat.",
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"text": "That [“Yes, Sir”] would be closer to my sort of response (the warm squiggly clenchy feeling in my middle would be less apparent;-), except I often prefer 'dear' to 'sir', though for some reason I do like 'ma'am' sometimes, when appropriate, but 'sir' feels so militaristic.",
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"text": "are you a photographer? Use a slr? Left eye does what? Crink-y neck? Clenchy left arm? A good Chiropracter^([sic]) might help.",
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"text": "Well, you've been here awhile, so you deserve more benefit of the doubt than \"clenchy\" beck there (he must have meant his anus, he can't really be a SubG) - so, let me ask, what makes you think hk is a guy?",
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"ref": "2003 November 20, Cindi, “Expert opinons on Monty Roberts training methods & interpretation of horse behavior”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Sep 2025:",
"text": "I see many more problems with getting the participants to be aggressive ENOUGH with their horses, who are walking all over them without a care in the world. Now I'd guess that if any given clinic just happened to be full of more jerky, aggressive, loud, harsh, grabby, clenchy people, maybe the predator thing would be emphasized a bit more.",
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"ref": "2008 October 29, Peter J Ross, “Inés / PJR”, in rec.arts.poems (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Sep 2025:",
"text": "Green is the colour of nice people / whose fugitive ink is never red. / Red is the foreigner's painted steeple, / and black's the clenchy fingers / of oh so many's forgotten dead.",
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"text": "I see many more problems with getting the participants to be aggressive ENOUGH with their horses, who are walking all over them without a care in the world. Now I'd guess that if any given clinic just happened to be full of more jerky, aggressive, loud, harsh, grabby, clenchy people, maybe the predator thing would be emphasized a bit more.",
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