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cagyness

cagyness is the alternative form of caginess.

Meaning of caginess

Noun

caginess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being cagey.
    • And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”2024 January 10, Laura Snapes, “Taylor Swift’s people shut down speculation about her sexuality – but risked rebuking her LGBTQ fans”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin of cagyness

From cagy + -ness.

Questions about cagyness

What is cagyness the alternative form of?
Cagyness is the alternative form of caginess.

Words near cagyness in the dictionary

  1. Caguscos
  2. Cagusu-an
  3. Cagutsan
  4. Cagwait
  5. cagy
  6. cagyness
  7. cah
  8. Cahaba
  9. Cahagnaan
  10. Cahal
  11. Cahalan

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