Flaggy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈflæɡi/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Flaggy is an adjective meaning (geology) Tending to split into layers like flagstones.
Meaning
(geology) Tending to split into layers like flagstones.
More Meanings
- Abounding in flags (plants with sword-shaped leaves).
- (obsolete) Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.
- (obsolete) Tasteless; insipid.
Example Sentences
His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full […]
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.
[…] 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, […]
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.
Word Forms
- flaggier
- flaggiest
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pendent, pendulent, pendulous, sagging, dangly, drooping.
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