clitchy

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Clammy, sticky, glutinous.--Pickering's Vocab. Mr. Pickering says, he has "heard this word used in a few instances by old people in New England; but it is rarely heard." In Devonshire, in England, the word clatchy, meaning the same, is provincial. In Holloway's Dictionary of Provincialisms is clit, clayey, stiff, applied to the soil.