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knaggy

adjective

Having many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged.

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bumpy knotty lumpy coarse craggy harsh rough rugged

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Meanings

adjectiveknaggy (comparative knaggier, superlative knaggiest)

comparative knaggier · superlative knaggiest

Having many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged.
Synonyms: bumpy, knotty, lumpy
figurativelyTemperamentally rough.
[…]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.
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
Synonyms: coarse, craggy, harsh, rough, rugged

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHaving many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged.

Similar

bumpy knotty lumpy

adjectiveTemperamentally rough.

Similar

coarse craggy harsh rough rugged

Origin

From knag + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with knaggy

maggie shaggy aggie saggy baggy craggy baggie maggy jaggy laggy aggy braggie daggy flaggy gaggy naggy scraggy Taggie

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Chicago

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