Tending to clatch; making a clatching sound or motion; characterized by grasping or clutching movements.
From 'clatch' (to grasp or make clatching sounds) + '-y' (having the quality of). This appears to be a dialectal adjective formation.
This quirky adjective—if it's used at all—probably survives only in specific regional dialects, reminding us that for every common word, there are dozens of regional cousins most of us never hear.
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