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▪ I. flaggy, a.1|ˈflægɪ|
[f. flag n.1 + -y1.]
1. Abounding in flags or reeds.
1382Wyclif Exod. ii. 3 He..putte the litil faunt with ynne, and sette out hym in the flaggi place of the brinke of the flode. 1552Nottingham Rec. IV. 104 For the flaggy peyse of grounde lyeng..in Estcrofte. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. xlix, Old Chamus flaggy banks. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 40 There is a little flaggie piece towardes the west ende. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 125 The rings went whirling round, Till they touch'd the flaggy bank. 1884Public Opinion 5 Sept. 299/2 Its favourite flaggy haunts.
2. Consisting or made of flags or reeds.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ix. (1626) 176 The rupture of his browes He shades with flaggie wreathes, and sallow boughes. 1698J. Fryer E. India & Persia 17 Their Flaggy Mansions: Flags..upheld with some few Sticks, supplying both Sides and Covering to their Cottages. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 200 Cam will ere long his flaggy Tresses rear. 1831W. Howitt Bk. Seasons iv. 94 The large flaggy nests of the water-hen.
3. Resembling a flag or reed, flag-like.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) iii. 120 Rather soft sweete grasse, then hie and flaggy. 1597Gerarde Herbal i. xxxiv. 45 The common Flower-de-luce hath long and large flaggie leaues, like the blade of a sworde. 1652Culpeper Eng. Physic. 95 (Flower-de-luce) The flaggy kindes thereof have the most physical uses. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1760) II. xxvi. 310 A kind of short flaggy grass.
4. Of corn, straw, etc.: Having a large flag (see flag n.1 2).
1842Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. III. ii. 300 Straw bright and reedy, not flaggy. 1850Ibid. XI. ii. 691 My corn being too strong and flaggy.
▪ II. flaggy, a.2 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈflægɪ|
[f. flag v.1 + -y1. Cf. flag a., flaggish.]
1. Hanging down limply or lankly, drooping, pendulous.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 151 The cheekes seeme flaggy and hanging downe. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 10 His flaggy winges when forth he did display, Were like two sayles. c1620T. Robinson M. Magd. i. 238 Curlinge y⊇ flaggy lockes of the Neptunia plaine. 1681Lond. Gaz. No. 1614/4 A Tall Man with Brown flaggy Hair. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 40 Basking in the Sun thy Bees may lye, And resting there, their flaggy Pinions dry. 1725De Foe Voy. Round World (1840) 135 Her breasts were plump and round, not flaggy and hanging down. 1814H. Busk Fugit. Pieces 229 The flaggy sail Chides the dull absence of the quickening gale. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing i. 52 A large head with..wide-spread, flaggy wings..to represent a Jupiter Pluvius.
2. Soft and flabby, having no firmness, flaccid.
a1565Sir T. Chaloner in Q. Eliz. Boethius (E.E.T.S.) 147 My skynne do sagg in wrinkles slacke, my flaggy lymbes do tremble. 1626Bacon Sylva §453 It will beare a great flaggy Apple. 1634T. Horne Janua Ling. (ed. 8) 9 Lillies..Wither and grow flaggy. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. iii. 91 It [the Heart] becomes soft and flaggy, and gives no pulsation. 1705W. Bosman Guinea 238 The flesh is so flaggy and the Bacon so sorry. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Wordbk., Flaggy, flabby, limp.
Hence ˈflagginess, the state of being flaggy.
1654Z. Coke Logic Ded. (1657) A iij b, Through the flagginesse of her Pinion. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xiv. 480 When there is a weakness of the Stomach, especially a flagginess. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 60 The lungs, by their flagginess fastening themselves to the sides. 1755Johnson Flagginess, laxity, limberness, want of tension.
▪ III. flaggy, a.3|ˈflægɪ|
[f. flag n.2 + -y1.]
Cleaving readily into flags, capable of being split up, laminate.
1847Ansted Anc. World iii. 23 A grayish-coloured sandy stone, often slaty or flaggy. 1877A. H. Green Phys. Geol. ii. §7. 85 A rock which is regularly and not very thickly bedded, so that it can be split up into slabs for paving, is called Flaggy, or a Flagstone. |