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knacky en · ADJ

Etymology

From knack + -y.

Meanings

  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 Dunbar 1830, Alexander Campbell, Perkin Warbeck:

Forms

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most knacky Degree=Sup lexicographic
more knacky Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

knackiness