knacky

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adjective

Having a knack; cunning; crafty.

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Meanings

adjectiveknacky (comparative more knacky, superlative most knacky)

comparative more knacky · superlative most knacky

  1. UKdialectalHaving a knack; cunning; crafty.

    I spak about to your highness, and a weel clinkit commodity it seems to me to be: he's a bit knacky clever body, that same Willie Dunbar

    1830, Alexander Campbell, Perkin Warbeck

Origin

From knack + -y.

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knacky. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knacky

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