knaggy

[ nag-ee ]

adjective

, knag·gi·er, knag·gi·est.

1. knotty; rough with knots.

Word History and Origins

Origin of knaggy¹

1350–1400; Middle English knag spur, projection, peg (cognate with German Knagge knot, peg) + -y ¹

Example Sentences

When she married she would cultivate the soil like the other women; her flower-like whiteness would fade and turn yellow; her hands would become black and scaly; she would be like her mother and all the old peasant women, a female skeleton, bent and knaggy, like the trunk of an olive tree.

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P. 424, KNAGGY, 'Crochetty' amended to Crotchety.

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Southern, an old name of the English.Swaird, sword.Swall’d, swelled.Swank, stately, jolly.Swankie, or swanker, a tight strapping young fellow or girl.Swap, an exchange, to barter.Swarfed, swooned.Swat, did sweat.Swatch, a sample.Swats, drink, good ale, new ale or wort.Sweer, lazy, averse; dead-sweer, extremely averse.Swoor, swore, did swear.Swinge, beat, to whip.Swinke, to labour hard.Swirlie, knaggy, full of knots.Swirl, a curve, an eddying blast or pool, a knot in the wood.Swith, get away.Swither, to hesitate in choice, an irresolute wavering in choice.Syebow, a thick-necked onion.Syne, since, ago, then.

From Project Gutenberg

Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, untie. knotted, a. knurled, knaggy, gnarled, gnarly; snarled, entangled, interwoven. knotty, a. knotted, gnarled, crossgrained; intricate, difficult, complicated. knowable, a. ascertainable, cognizable, cognoscible, intelligible, recognizable.

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But to enter in thereat, because it is of a knaggy, difficult, and rugged access, this is the question which I ask of you.

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