knaggyadj.
/ˈnaɡi/, U.S. /ˈnæɡi/ Abounding in pointed protuberances, knobs, or knots: knotty, rough, rugged.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Knaggye, or full of knagges, scopulosus.
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. xv. 131 The place was..so knaggy and hanging that the wayes were inaccessible.
1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times v. x. 218 The Head of a Flail, or Flagell, knaggie and knotty.
1659 C. Hoole tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus xxix. 61/1 The Elke..hath knaggy horns.
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 96 Their knaggie Talking did up barme him, Their sharp Reflections did much warm him.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 96 Old bushes..all knaggy and wormed.
Derivatives
ˈknagginess n.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Knagginess, fulness of Knots, as Wood.
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