The 27th was claggy weather so I spent the day in pit reading a book.

Add a little water if the mixture is claggy instead of glossy.

It will become soft and claggy as the celeriac soaks up the dressing.

The weather was claggy with a cool breeze.

I lie flat on my back and drink revolting claggy green soup through a large syringe.

The weather was claggy and misty, very little visibility and occasional rain.

Neither was I wowed by a too-sweet, claggy traditional cheesecake.

It was a claggy, cold, moist, northern jungle.

This plant is growing in my claggy old clay soil and is subject to severe waterlogging every winter.

They had reached the fields, and the soft loam was clinging to Horst's feet in huge claggy lumps.

It comes with a gaggy, claggy thick layer of jam in the middle that negates the other flavours.

While "maximum coverage" always sounds reminiscent of claggy old-style panstick foundation, the best versions are intended for just the opposite effect.

So that feminism could be turned into a banal message about women finding independence, empowerment and self-validation in a slightly claggy, overly rich ice cream?

But T's vanilla biscuits (£6) were disgusting: dry, claggy and held together with dulce de leche that tasted of fridge.

If the claggy texture of the slab of bread doesn't get your juices flowing, then the bitter butter replacement surely must.

One sure way to scare off these box-fresh blood suckers would be to advance towards them sporting claggy nylon-clad deodorant-free armpits.

The only miss was a claggy "clafoutis," not a puffy, fruit-studded batter, more a slab of cold custard with embedded berries.

Most milk chocolate is too fatty, so that when it warms up it turns each mouthful into a claggy lump (see also, Nutella).

Bitter chocolate mousse with "gary-baldy" biscuits (£4) is triumphant, not too sweet and with a fantastically claggy texture.

The texture is so often just plain weird - claggy, gluey or granulated, and it camps out in your oesophagus and refuses to budge.

Pulling my suitcase brought a silted-up mass of claggy snow in front of the wheels, and I had to stop every few yards to manhandle it forward.

Did Larkin trip or - St Delia forfend! - did he fall on purpose to distract attention from the claggy cocoa catastrophe?

By the time we sat down to eat, all three pastas were a claggy mess, as was I. Even when multiple dishes do succeed, it feels indecisive.

One dessert tried - also served in a Kilner jar - was kataifi (like shredded wheat in syrup) served with cold, claggy almond custard.