flaggyadj.¹

/ˈflaɡi/

Etymology: < flag n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

1. Abounding in flags or reeds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [adjective] > having or full of

reedy1307

flaggy1382

reedena1387

sedgy1566

rushy1567

saggy1609

secky1610

cany1667

seavy1684

bentya1700

juncous1755

rushed1759

rush-grown1765

spritty1786

spratty1808

reeded1821

sedged1866

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. ii. 3 He..putte the litil faunt with ynne, and sette out hym in the flaggi place of the brinke of the flode.

1552 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 104 For the flaggy peyse of grounde lyeng..in Estcrofte.

1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 83 Old Chamus flaggy banks.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 42 There is a little flaggie peece towards the West ende.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 125 The rings went whirling round, Till they touch'd the flaggy bank.

1884 Public Opinion 5 Sept. 299/2 Its favourite flaggy haunts.

2. Consisting or made of flags or reeds.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of reed(s)

reedena1382

reeded1570

sedgy1624

flaggy1626

reedish1629

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 176 The rupture of his browes He shades with flaggie wreathes, and sallow boughes.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 17 Their Flaggy Mansions: Flags..upheld with some few Sticks, supplying both Sides and Covering to their Cottages.

a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. vii. 200 Cam will ere long his flaggy Tresses rear.

1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons iv. 94 The large flaggy nests of the water-hen.

3. Resembling a flag or reed, flag-like.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [adjective] > resembling an aquatic grass

rushy1547

flaggy1577

rush-like1578

spratty1808

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 120 Rather soft sweete grasse, then hye and flaggy.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 45 The common Flower de-luce hath long and large flaggie leaues, like the blade of a sworde.

1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 95 [Flower-de-luce] The flaggy kindes thereof have the most physical uses.

1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxvi. 310 A kind of short flaggy Grass.

4. Of corn, straw, etc.: Having a large flag (see flag n.¹ 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular shape or size

broad-leaved1552

long-leaved1562

narrow-leaved1578

round-leaved1597

small-leaved1597

long-leafed1629

rosemary-leaved1633

rue-leaved1633

teretifolious1657

cut-leaved1731

longleaf1733

channel-leaved1758

halberd-shaped1770

alder-leaved1772

oak-leaved1776

holly-leaved1777

ivy-leaved1789

halberd-headed1795

daisy-leaved1796

narrow-leaf1804

oblique-leaved1807

sword-leaved1807

wing-leaved1822

flaggy1842

curly1845

macrophyllous1857

parvifolious1857

shield-leaved1860

curled1861

symphyllous1877

beak-leaved188.

stenophyllous1880

thread-leaved1884

megaphyllous1901

little leaf1908

ivy-leaf1909

1842 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3 ii. 300 Straw bright and reedy, not flaggy.

1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 691 My corn being too strong and flaggy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

flaggyadj.²

/ˈflaɡi/

Etymology: < flag v.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare flag adj., flaggish adj.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

1. Hanging down limply or lankly, drooping, pendulous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > drooping or hanging limply

droop?1507

flagging1540

sag1541

lolling1567

flaggy1576

fagged1578

flag1591

drooping1600

slouching1611

emarcid1661

flaggish1669

slouchy1693

tangly1812

sunken1823

adroop1833

saggy1853

loppy1855

floppy1858

drooped1873

flippy-floppy1905

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. ii. f. 94 The cheeks seeme flaggie and hanging downe.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. K8 His flaggy winges when forth he did display, Were like two sayles.

c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i.xxv. 238 Curlinge y^e flaggy lockes of the Neptunian plaine.

1681 London Gaz. No. 1614/4 A Tall Man with Brown flaggy Hair.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 123 Basking in the Sun thy Bees may lye, And resting there, their flaggy Pinions dry.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 148 Her Breasts were plump and round, not flaggy and hanging down.

1814 H. Busk Fugitive Pieces 229 The flaggy sail Chides the dull absence of the quickening gale.

1821 W. M. Craig 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily substance > flesh > [adjective] > flabby

flaggya1565

flappy1598

quaggy1611

flaccid1620

quagginga1627

pendulous1822

slummocky?1861

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > flabby or flaccid

bloatc1300

quavya1398

lennow1528

fobbya1535

flaggya1565

limber1592

quaggy1611

flaccid1620

frothy1626

boggy1664

flabby1697

limp1706

loppy1855

limpsy1865

huffy1890

a1565 T. Chaloner tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophie i, in Queen Elizabeth I Englishings (1899) App. 150 My skynne do sagg in wrinkles slacke, my fflaggy lymbes do tremble.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §453 It will beare a great flaggy Apple.

1634 T. Horn tr. J. A. Comenius Gate Lang. Unlocked (ed. 8) 9 Lillies..Wither and grow flaggy.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. iii. 91 It [the Heart] becomes soft and flaggy, and gives no pulsation.

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xiv. 238 The Flesh is so flaggy and the Bacon so sorry.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Flaggy, flabby, limp.

Derivatives

ˈflagginess n. the state of being flaggy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > flabbiness or flaccidity

quagginess1653

flagginess1654

slappiness1668

flaccidity1676

flabbiness1727

flaccidness1727

the world > life > the body > bodily substance > flesh > [noun] > flabby > condition of being

flatuling1634

flagginess1654

flaccidness1876

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > hanging down > drooping or hanging limply

droop1647

flagginess1654

drooping1816

droopiness1828

droopingness1864

weeping1869

1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick Ep. Ded. sig. A4^v The Eagle..through the flagginess of her Pinion flutters Estrich like.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiv. 480 When there is a weakness of the Stomach, especially a flagginess.

1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 60 The lungs, by their flagginess fastening themselves to the sides.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Flagginess, laxity, limberness, want of tension.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flaggyadj.³

/ˈflaɡi/

Etymology: < flag n.² + -y suffix¹.

Cleaving readily into flags, capable of being split up, laminate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile > fissile

findible1611

fissile1661

flaggy1847

1847 D. T. Ansted Anc. World iii. 23 A grayish-coloured sandy stone, often slaty or flaggy.

1877 A. H. Green Geol. for Students: Physical Geol. (ed. 2) 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

adj.¹1382

adj.²a1565

adj.³1847

单词	flaggy
释义	flaggyadj.¹ /ˈflaɡi/ Etymology: < flag n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. Abounding in flags or reeds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [adjective] > having or full of reedy1307 flaggy1382 reedena1387 sedgy1566 rushy1567 saggy1609 secky1610 cany1667 seavy1684 bentya1700 juncous1755 rushed1759 rush-grown1765 spritty1786 spratty1808 reeded1821 sedged1866 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. ii. 3 He..putte the litil faunt with ynne, and sette out hym in the flaggi place of the brinke of the flode. 1552 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 104 For the flaggy peyse of grounde lyeng..in Estcrofte. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 83 Old Chamus flaggy banks. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 42 There is a little flaggie peece towards the West ende. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 125 The rings went whirling round, Till they touch'd the flaggy bank. 1884 Public Opinion 5 Sept. 299/2 Its favourite flaggy haunts. 2. Consisting or made of flags or reeds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of reed(s) reedena1382 reeded1570 sedgy1624 flaggy1626 reedish1629 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 176 The rupture of his browes He shades with flaggie wreathes, and sallow boughes. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 17 Their Flaggy Mansions: Flags..upheld with some few Sticks, supplying both Sides and Covering to their Cottages. a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. vii. 200 Cam will ere long his flaggy Tresses rear. 1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons iv. 94 The large flaggy nests of the water-hen. 3. Resembling a flag or reed, flag-like. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [adjective] > resembling an aquatic grass rushy1547 flaggy1577 rush-like1578 spratty1808 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 120 Rather soft sweete grasse, then hye and flaggy. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 45 The common Flower de-luce hath long and large flaggie leaues, like the blade of a sworde. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 95 [Flower-de-luce] The flaggy kindes thereof have the most physical uses. 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxvi. 310 A kind of short flaggy Grass. 4. Of corn, straw, etc.: Having a large flag (see flag n.¹ 2). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular shape or size broad-leaved1552 long-leaved1562 narrow-leaved1578 round-leaved1597 small-leaved1597 long-leafed1629 rosemary-leaved1633 rue-leaved1633 teretifolious1657 cut-leaved1731 longleaf1733 channel-leaved1758 halberd-shaped1770 alder-leaved1772 oak-leaved1776 holly-leaved1777 ivy-leaved1789 halberd-headed1795 daisy-leaved1796 narrow-leaf1804 oblique-leaved1807 sword-leaved1807 wing-leaved1822 flaggy1842 curly1845 macrophyllous1857 parvifolious1857 shield-leaved1860 curled1861 symphyllous1877 beak-leaved188. stenophyllous1880 thread-leaved1884 megaphyllous1901 little leaf1908 ivy-leaf1909 1842 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3 ii. 300 Straw bright and reedy, not flaggy. 1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 691 My corn being too strong and flaggy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021). flaggyadj.² /ˈflaɡi/ Etymology: < flag v.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare flag adj., flaggish adj. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. Hanging down limply or lankly, drooping, pendulous. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > drooping or hanging limply droop?1507 flagging1540 sag1541 lolling1567 flaggy1576 fagged1578 flag1591 drooping1600 slouching1611 emarcid1661 flaggish1669 slouchy1693 tangly1812 sunken1823 adroop1833 saggy1853 loppy1855 floppy1858 drooped1873 flippy-floppy1905 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. ii. f. 94 The cheeks seeme flaggie and hanging downe. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. K8 His flaggy winges when forth he did display, Were like two sayles. c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i.xxv. 238 Curlinge y^e flaggy lockes of the Neptunian plaine. 1681 London Gaz. No. 1614/4 A Tall Man with Brown flaggy Hair. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 123 Basking in the Sun thy Bees may lye, And resting there, their flaggy Pinions dry. View more context for this quotation 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 148 Her Breasts were plump and round, not flaggy and hanging down. 1814 H. Busk Fugitive Pieces 229 The flaggy sail Chides the dull absence of the quickening gale. 1821 W. M. Craig 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > flesh > [adjective] > flabby flaggya1565 flappy1598 quaggy1611 flaccid1620 quagginga1627 pendulous1822 slummocky?1861 the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > flabby or flaccid bloatc1300 quavya1398 lennow1528 fobbya1535 flaggya1565 limber1592 quaggy1611 flaccid1620 frothy1626 boggy1664 flabby1697 limp1706 loppy1855 limpsy1865 huffy1890 a1565 T. Chaloner tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophie i, in Queen Elizabeth I Englishings (1899) App. 150 My skynne do sagg in wrinkles slacke, my fflaggy lymbes do tremble. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §453 It will beare a great flaggy Apple. 1634 T. Horn tr. J. A. Comenius Gate Lang. Unlocked (ed. 8) 9 Lillies..Wither and grow flaggy. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. iii. 91 It [the Heart] becomes soft and flaggy, and gives no pulsation. 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xiv. 238 The Flesh is so flaggy and the Bacon so sorry. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Flaggy, flabby, limp. Derivatives ˈflagginess n. the state of being flaggy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > flabbiness or flaccidity quagginess1653 flagginess1654 slappiness1668 flaccidity1676 flabbiness1727 flaccidness1727 the world > life > the body > bodily substance > flesh > [noun] > flabby > condition of being flatuling1634 flagginess1654 flaccidness1876 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > hanging down > drooping or hanging limply droop1647 flagginess1654 drooping1816 droopiness1828 droopingness1864 weeping1869 1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick Ep. Ded. sig. A4^v The Eagle..through the flagginess of her Pinion flutters Estrich like. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiv. 480 When there is a weakness of the Stomach, especially a flagginess. 1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 60 The lungs, by their flagginess fastening themselves to the sides. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Flagginess, laxity, limberness, want of tension. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flaggyadj.³ /ˈflaɡi/ Etymology: < flag n.² + -y suffix¹. Cleaving readily into flags, capable of being split up, laminate. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile > fissile findible1611 fissile1661 flaggy1847 1847 D. T. Ansted Anc. World iii. 23 A grayish-coloured sandy stone, often slaty or flaggy. 1877 A. H. Green Geol. for Students: Physical Geol. (ed. 2) 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.¹1382adj.²a1565adj.³1847
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