knaggee
Appearance
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]knaggee
- cross, knotty
- Synonym: hachee
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 84:
- Fade teil thee zo lournagh, co Joane, zo knaggee?
- What ails you so melancholy, quoth John, so cross?
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 50