Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adroit; clever; adaptable; having a knack.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. & Scot. Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish.
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- adjective UK, dialect Having a
knack ;cunning ;crafty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I never know where to put all the knick-knacky stuff, so I think it's going to all get thrown in a box and put in the closet.
"Between the Disney Channel and Mr. Roger's, I'm screwed." tragic_elegance 2007
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And I have to know it, because there's going to be a jury of these knacky folks, and they're going to decide whether Makepeace Smith is a plain liar, or I am.
Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995
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John Hallett, notwithstanding the roughness of his aspect, was rather knick-knacky in his tastes; a great patron of small inventions, such as the _improved_ ne plus ultra cork-screw, and the latest patent snuffers.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number Various
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She got splints and set his leg just as knacky, and bandaged it up, and she has tended him like a sick baby ever since.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920
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Anne's tickled to death over the whole business, and she has a real knacky way with children, I must say.
Anne of Avonlea 1909
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Anne's tickled to death over the whole business, and she has a real knacky way with children, I must say.
Anne of Avonlea 1908
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She got splints and set his leg just as knacky, and bandaged it up, and she has tended him like a sick baby ever since.
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And as to drink, a man that takes the first glass is as quiet and as merry as a pet lamb; and after the second glass he is as knacky as a monkey; and after the third glass he is as ready for battle as a lion; and after the fourth glass he is like a swine as he is.
The Kiltartan History Book Lady Gregory 1892
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Wall-E this week, about a robot on some kind of post-apocalyptic planet Earth hard at work building structures and collecting knick-knacky cultural remnants of civilization.
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At the bottom of the hill, outside a knicky-knacky antiquey sort of shop, I pick up, for a dollar, The Fourth Edition of the Junior Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sport (with an all-new chapter on "winter ski-ing").
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