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Webster 1913 Edition
Flaggy
Flag′gy
,Adj.
1.
Weak; flexible; limber.
“Flaggy wings.” Spenser.
2.
Tasteless; insipid;
as, a
. flaggy
apple[Obs.]
Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Flaggy
FLAG'GY
, a.1.
Weak; flexible; limber; not stiff.2.
Weak in taste; insipid; as a flaggy apple.3.
Abounding with flags, the plant.Definition 2025
flaggy
flaggy
English
Adjective
flaggy (comparative more flaggy, superlative most 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
- Francis Bacon
- 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.
- Francis Bacon