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knaggy, a.|ˈnægɪ|
[f. knag n.1 + -y.]
Abounding in pointed protuberances, knobs, or knots: knotty, rough, rugged.
1552Huloet, Knaggye, or full of knagges, scopulosus. 1569T. Stocker tr. Diod. Sic. iii. xv. 131 The place was..so knaggy and hanging that the wayes were inaccessible. 1647Fuller Good Th. in Worse T. (1841) 153 The head of a flail, or flagel, knaggy and knotty. 1729Hoole Comenius' Vis. World (1777) 38 The elke..hath knaggy horns. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 96 Old bushes..all knaggy and wormed.
Hence ˈknagginess.
1727Bailey vol. II, Knagginess, fulness of Knots, as Wood. |