flaggy

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Hanging down; drooping, pendulous. obsolete
    — His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full […]
  2. Tasteless; insipid. obsolete
    — 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. Tending to split into layers like flagstones.
    — If this view be correct there must have been a great difference in the sedimentation of the two areas, as the thick beds consist of alternations of flaggy sandstone with occasional true sandstone, almost pure limestones, calmstones, and few or no real flagstones.
  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, […]

词形变化

more flaggy comparative flaggier comparative most flaggy superlative flaggiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
flaggily flagginess
相关词
red-flaggy

词源

From flag + -y.
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