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clifty

clifty

English

Adjective

clifty (comparative more clifty, superlative most clifty)

  1. (now rare) Characterised by cliffs; cliffy, craggy.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 3:
      Down the clifty gorge – its walls of solid sandstone, cloven to the bare heart of the range by the fierce momentum of the waters – the bounding river came.