clotted, ppl. a.
(ˈklɒtɪd)
[f. clot v. + -ed.]
1. a. Gathered into clots, clods, or lumps; coagulated, thickened.
| 1605 Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 34 The clotted Mud. 1636 Massinger Bashful Lover iii. iii, Wash off The clotted blood. 1801 Southey Thalaba vii. xvi, Off he shook the clotted earth. 1870 Bryant Iliad I. v. 174. |
b. clotted cream: = clouted-cream, q.v.
| 1878 Oxford Bible-Helps 137 The Hebrews..made a kind of clotted cream by subjecting new milk to fermentation. |
2. Stuck together in or with clots; covered with clots (of blood, etc.).
| 1725 Pope Odyss. xv. 568 The clotted feathers. 1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 595 The clotted scourge hangs hardening in the shrouds. a 1839 Praed Poems (1864) I. 199 With a gash beneath his clotted hair. |
3. fig., spec. concentrated, dense; esp. in phr. clotted nonsense.
| 1674 Dryden et al. Notes & Obs. Empress of Morocco 23 Sure the Poet wrote these two Lines aboard some smack in a storm, and being Sea-sick spued up a good Lump of clotted Nonsense at once. 1834 Sun 1 Apr. 2/4 Sartor Resartus is what old Dennis used to call ‘a heap of clotted nonsense’. 1885 W. B. Yeats in Dublin Univ. Rev. May 83/2 When low the sun sank down in clotted flame Beyond the lake. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 2/2 This is the kind of talk which has been admirably described as ‘clotted nonsense’. 1940 W. Empson Gathering Storm 63, I tried to defend my clotted kind of poetry. 1963 Listener 24 Jan. 180/3 A more than usually clotted [television] script. |