clutchy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]clutchy (comparative more clutchy, superlative most clutchy)
- Tending to clutch; clingy or grabby.
- 1999, Out, volume 7, number 8, page 104:
- You're triangulated when a clutchy, cloying kissy-poo couple uses you like a decorative backdrop to their perpetual prom night, when you're just supposed to sit there like a sexless old aunt and say, "Oh, you two."
- 2016, Molly K. Zuckerman, Debra L. Martin, New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology, page 43:
- It is unavoidable that culture and biology dance together, sometimes in a graceful and seamless tango and at other times a clutchy foxtrot, stepping on each other's toes.