Having the quality or appearance of cloth; resembling cloth in texture or feel.
From 'cloth' (Old English 'clāth') plus the adjective-forming suffix '-y.' This is an informal descriptive term that emerged in everyday speech rather than formal usage.
The word 'clothy' is the kind of word regular people invent when they need to describe something—it's rarely in dictionaries, but everyone knows what you mean if you say something feels 'clothy' rather than silky or papery!
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