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English
Etymology
From knack + -y.
Adjective
knacky (comparative more knacky, superlative most knacky)
- (UK, dialect) Having a knack; cunning; crafty.
1830, Alexander Campbell, Perkin Warbeck:I spak about to your highness, and a weel clinkit commodity it seems to me to be: he's a bit knacky clever body, that same Willie Dunbar
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