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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.

Flag′gy

,
Adj.
[From 5th
Flag
.]
Abounding with the plant called flag;
as, a
flaggy
marsh
.

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 2024


flaggy

flaggy

English

Adjective

flaggy (comparative more flaggy, superlative most flaggy)

  1. (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 []
  2. (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.