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Clingsome (adj) means tending to stick or cling to things.

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Tending to stick or cling to things.

"Presently we saw a tiny, wedge-shaped grey bird, with infinitesimal, clingsome feet, that glided in and out between the branches of the beech hedge like a noiseless, living shuttle." — Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater (1916)

"he loose blouse-like shirt, in an artistic tint of faded green, was made remarkably full, and was of some soft clingsome material, probably flannelette, though this I was unable to get near enough to ascertain decisively." — Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew (1907)

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