knaggy
English
Etymology
knag + -y
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æɡi
Adjective
knaggy (comparative knaggier, superlative knaggiest)
- Having many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged.
- (figuratively) Temperamentally rough.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
- […] his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.
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Synonyms
- (having many protuberances): bumpy, knotty, lumpy
- (rough): coarse, craggy, harsh, rough, rugged