flaggiest
flaggiest is the superlative form of flaggy.
Meaning of flaggy
Adjective
flaggy (comparative more flaggy or flaggier, superlative most flaggy or flaggiest)
- Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.
- His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- 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.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
- 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.1901, Geological Survey of Great Britain, Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and The Museum of Practical Geology
- 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, […]1883, Francis Francis, The practical management of fisheries, page 42
Questions about flaggiest
- What is flaggiest the superlative form of?
- Flaggiest is the superlative form of flaggy.
Words near flaggiest in the dictionary
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