flaggy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈflæɡi/
flaggy
- (obsolete) Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
- His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full […]
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
- (obsolete) tasteless; insipid
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- Yet it is reported, that in the Low Countries they will graft an apple cion upon the stock of a colewort, and it will bear a great flaggy apple, the kernel of which, if it be set, will be a colewort, and not an apple.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (geology) Tending to split into layers like flagstones.
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