knacky

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

knack +‎ -y

Adjective[edit]

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

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