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Definition of Flaggy
1. a. Weak; flexible; limber.
2. a. Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.
Definition of Flaggy
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Hanging down; drooping, pendulous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flaggy
1. drooping [adj -GIER, -GIEST]
Medical Definition of Flaggy
1. Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh. Origin: From 5th Flag. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flaggy
Literary usage of Flaggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geology of the Isle of Man by George William Lamplugh, William Whitehead Watts (1903)
"Plan of Crush-conglomerate in floor of a cave south of Gob y Deigan, showing
breaking-up of flaggy inclusions. Area, about 9 square feet. t7 "O . • •"•a £>, ..."
2. Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad by Archibald Geikie (1882)
"for tbe most part of a flaggy quartzose character. Sometimes, especially where
most fissile, they are violently crumpled. Parts of them pass into hornblende ..."
3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"Ru=t does not appear to be injurious to corn so long as it is confined to the
flaggy leaves, as It seldom grows except when they are over-luxuriant, ..."
4. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"His flaggy winges, when forth he did display, Were like two sayles, in which the
hollow ... flaggy ..."
5. The Virginias, a Mining, Industrial & Scientific Journal, Devoted to the by Jedediah Hotchkiss (1881)
"Sandstone, somewhat massive, hut often inclined to be flaggy, greenish-gray ;
seen in ... X, consisting of gray current bedded.mostly flaggy sandstones, ..."
6. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1891)
"Hard arenaceous shale, and flaggy sand- rocks 40 to 60 feet. (21) COAL, Armstrong
seam 3 feet to 3 feet 5 inches. Thin flaggy ..."
7. The Economic Geology of the Central Coal-field of Scotland, Area VIII. Fast by Robert George Carruthers, Charles Hawber Dinham (1917)
"Fakes and sandstone ribs flaggy sandstone with lines of annelid burrows . ...
flaggy sandstone .... Blaes with 10 ribs of CB. IS. up to in. ..."
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