knaggy

English

Etymology

knag +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æɡi

Adjective

knaggy (comparative knaggier, superlative knaggiest)

1. Having many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged.
2. (figurative) Temperamentally rough.
   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     […] his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.

Synonyms

• (having many protuberances): bumpy, knotty, lumpy
• (rough): coarse, craggy, harsh, rough, rugged