gummed
guhmd
- v cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- v grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- v become sticky
- v exude or form gum
- s covered with adhesive gum
- Concern about who is still holding dud paper has gummed up credit markets, with banks refusing to lend to one another for fear that the borrowers may default or may have themselves .
- Factor in soaring unemployment, weaker consumer spending and the gummed-up credit markets, and Ireland is facing "the most challenging fiscal and economic position in a generation .
- BB whose share price has plummeted 93% this year relied on the gummed-up wholesale credit markets for around half of its mortgage funding.