flaggy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Hanging down

   Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.

   • His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full […]
2. 2

   Tasteless

   Tasteless; insipid.

   • Yet it is reported, that in the Low Countries they will graft an apple cion upon the stock of a colewort, and it will bear a great flaggy apple, the kernel of which, if it be set, will be a colewort, and not an apple.
3. 3

   Tending to split into layers like flagstones.

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   1. 4

      Abounding in flags (plants with sword-shaped leaves).

      • […] the fish begin to get into drains or ditches, or rushy, flaggy eddies; it is always worth while to run the net round such places at that season, quietly to […] beat the flags out, […]
      • There are "tule" [reed or rush] rivers, and plains and sloughs and marshes in many parts of North California, the word invariable denoting reedy, rushy, or flaggy.

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