Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
flaggy. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
flaggy, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
flaggy in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
flaggy you have here. The definition of the word
flaggy will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
flaggy, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From flag + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
flaggy (comparative more flaggy or flaggier, superlative most flaggy or flaggiest)
- (obsolete) Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.
- (obsolete) Tasteless; insipid.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC: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.
- (geology) Tending to split into layers like flagstones.
1901, Geological Survey of Great Britain, Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and The Museum of Practical Geology:If this view be correct there must have been a great difference in the sedimentation of the two areas, as the thick beds consist of alternations of flaggy sandstone with occasional true sandstone, almost pure limestones, calmstones, and few or no real flagstones.
1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter VII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. , volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, , →OCLC, page 111:In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
- Abounding in flags (plants with sword-shaped leaves).
- Coordinate terms: reedy, rushy, sedgy
1883, Francis Francis, The practical management of fisheries, page 42:[…] the fish begin to get into drains or ditches, or rushy, flaggy eddies; it is always worth while to run the net round such places at that season, quietly to […] beat the flags out, […]
1905, Paul Fountain, The Eleven Eaglets of the West, page 14:There are "tule" [reed or rush] rivers, and plains and sloughs and marshes in many parts of North California, the word invariable denoting reedy, rushy, or flaggy.
See also