Definitions for clingy

clingy cling·y

Spelling: [kling-ee]
IPA: /ˈklɪŋ i/

Clingy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in clingy (cgilny).

Definitions for clingy

adjective

  1. apt to cling; adhesive or tenacious:

Origin of clingy

First recorded in 1700-10; cling1 + -y1

Examples for clingy

She was as remote as the stars, he knew, yet a moment before he had felt her soft, clingy scarf blowing against his face.

So true to life that Googling “Aniston” and “clingy” returns over 23,000 results.

I hed a gown o' thet once: it was drefful kind o' clingy stuff.

Vivian Salama on why Yemenis can't shake their clingy ex-president.

The stuff was spongy and sticky and clingy, and he had now sunk deep into it up to his stomach.

Clad head to toe in clingy black fabrics—the top half of her sequined!

If Karzai were a clingy ex, Obama could then change his phone number or, in the worst-case scenario, file a restraining order.

Over the years, Miss Piggy has been faulted for her clingy, seemingly obsessive relationship with Kermit the Frog.

And when he had made up his mind what to do he gritted his teeth and put both arms about the clingy Thing.

Word Value for clingy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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