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Claggy vs Flaggy - What's the difference?

claggy | flaggy |

As adjectives the difference between claggy and flaggy

is that claggy is sticky or tacky while flaggy is hanging down; drooping, pendulous.

claggy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Sticky or tacky.
  • Adhesive, having coal clinging to it.

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    flaggy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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
  • (obsolete) tasteless; insipid
  • * Francis Bacon
    • a flaggy apple