British dialect: a sticky or adhesive substance; something thick and gluey.
From 'clag' (to stick) + possibly '-um' (Latin-like suffix used in English for substances). Regional British English variant.
This word sounds made-up but it's genuinely used in some British dialects—it captures the sound and feel of something gooey, like onomatopoeia for stickiness.
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