flaggy

English

Etymology

From flag +‎ -y.

Adjective

flaggy (comparative more flaggy, superlative most flaggy)

  1. (obsolete) Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.
    • 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
      His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full […]
  2. (obsolete) tasteless; insipid
    • Francis Bacon
      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.
  3. (geology) Tending to split into layers like flagstones.
    • 1901, Geological Survey of Great Britain, Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and The Museum of Practical Geology:
      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.
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