knacky

English

Etymology

knack +‎ -y

Adjective

knacky (comparative more knacky, superlative most knacky)

1. (UK, dialect) Having a knack; cunning; crafty.
   • 1830, Alexander Campbell, Perkin Warbeck:

     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

References

• “knacky”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.