knaggy

English

Etymology

From knag +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -æɡi

Adjective

knaggy (comparative knaggier, superlative knaggiest)

  1. Having many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged.
  2. (figurative) Temperamentally rough.
    • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
      […] his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.

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