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  • adjective superlative form of clammy: most clammy.

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Examples

  • At sushi shops, they went for the clammiest fish eggs.

    Where the Slimy Things Are 2008

  • Mr. Waples had no time to reply, for a large bubble of carbonic acid gas burst at that moment, and blew him through the gap or "fault" of the rock, into the coldest and clammiest cavern he had ever trodden.

    Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • Strikingly, it's also a comedy club reference -- because that is of course the source of the clammiest clams.

    Jane in Progress 2010

  • Strikingly, it's also a comedy club reference -- because that is of course the source of the clammiest clams.

    Jane in Progress 2010

  • Maybe not the ultimate, but definitely the coldest and clammiest.

    BuzzFeed - Latest 2010

  • Maybe not the ultimate, but definitely the coldest and clammiest.

    BuzzFeed - Latest 2010

  • You may say: well, that works in Phoenix, but as it happens it was a cold rainy night in December, and it was thus the clammiest night in a mall Iā€™d ever had.

    Friday, May 22 ā€“ The Bleat. 2009

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