knacky
English
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editknacky (comparative more knacky, superlative most knacky)
- (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
edit- “knacky”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.