Knacky

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a knack; cunning; crafty. UK, dialectal

    "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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"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"

Etymology

From knack + -y.

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