different between faggy vs flaggy

English

Etymology

fag +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæ?i/
• Hyphenation: fag?gy

Adjective

faggy (comparative faggier, superlative faggiest)

1. (chiefly derogatory, offensive, informal) Effeminate; homosexual; gay.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 3:

     Nat Hanmer was sitting on the floor beside him, and his warm thigh was pressed against his own. There was something charmingly faggy about Nat tonight. He nodded and smiled into Nick's eyes as he was talking.

Derived terms

• fagginess

Scots

Etymology

fag (“fail from weariness, flag, falter”) +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fa??]

Adjective

faggy (comparative faggier, superlative faggiest)

1. tiring, wearisome

English

Etymology

From flag +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flæ?i/
• Rhymes: -æ?i

Adjective

flaggy (comparative more flaggy, superlative most flaggy)

1. (obsolete) Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.
   • 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:

     His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full […]

2. (obsolete) tasteless; insipid
3. (geology) Tending to split into layers like flagstones.