clingy n also cling. Sweet, fruit-flavoured drink; occas refreshments including this drink; SYRUP (P 94-57).
   M 69-20 The people whom the janneys visited treated them to Christmas cake and clingy. M 70-9 If there is any food custom that is strictly typical of Newfoundland it is the giving and eating of clingy. Clingy is a snack of Christmas cake and syrup. Syrup is a sweet, concentrated, fruit-flavoured drink manufactured ... in St John's.

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