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flaggy

adjective/ˈflæɡi/

What It Means

Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.

Tasteless; insipid.

Tending to split into layers like flagstones.

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Flaggy in Context

“There are "tule" [reed or rush] rivers, and plains and sloughs and marshes in many parts of North California, the word invariable denoting reedy, rushy, or flaggy.”

— 1905, Paul Fountain, The Eleven Eaglets of the West, page 14

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From flag + -y.

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