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knacky

knacky adjective: having a knack; cunning; crafty.

Adjective

knacky (comparative more knacky, superlative most knacky)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Having 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 Dunbar1830, Alexander Campbell, Perkin Warbeck

Forms of knacky

comparativemore knacky
superlativemost knacky

Origin of knacky

From knack + -y.

Words formed from knacky

Questions about knacky

What does knacky mean?
Knacky means having a knack; cunning; crafty.
What part of speech is knacky?
Knacky is an adjective.

Words near knacky in the dictionary

  1. knackish
  2. knackless
  3. knacks
  4. knackwurst
  5. knackwursts
  6. knacky
  7. knadel
  8. knadels
  9. knafah
  10. knafahs
  11. knafeh

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