knacky in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1830, Alexander Campbell, Perkin Warbeck",
          "text": "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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        "(UK, dialect) Having a knack; cunning; crafty."
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"knacky" meaning in All languages combined

Adjective [English]