"knaggy" meaning in English

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      "form": "knaggier",
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      "form": "knaggiest",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "Having many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged."
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          "knob",
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          "knot",
          "knot"
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          "knotty",
          "knotty"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "having many protuberances",
          "word": "bumpy"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "having many protuberances",
          "word": "knotty"
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "having many protuberances",
          "word": "lumpy"
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          "ref": "1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax",
          "text": "[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.",
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        "Temperamentally rough."
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        "(figurative) Temperamentally rough."
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          "sense": "rough",
          "word": "coarse"
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          "_dis1": "25 75",
          "sense": "rough",
          "word": "craggy"
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          "sense": "rough",
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    {
      "rhymes": "-æɡi"
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      "form": "knaggier",
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      "form": "knaggiest",
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        "superlative"
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        "Having many protuberances, knobs or knots; knotty, rough or rugged."
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          "knob",
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          "knot",
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          "knotty",
          "knotty"
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        "Temperamentally rough."
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    {
      "sense": "having many protuberances",
      "word": "bumpy"
    },
    {
      "sense": "having many protuberances",
      "word": "knotty"
    },
    {
      "sense": "having many protuberances",
      "word": "lumpy"
    },
    {
      "sense": "rough",
      "word": "coarse"
    },
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      "sense": "rough",
      "word": "craggy"
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