staggy

Or stag·gie

[stag-ee]

noun

Scot.

plural

staggies 

1. a colt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of staggy¹

First recorded in 1780–90; stag + -y ²

Example Sentences

Barley, immediately brought to the malt house from the field, rarely makes good malt, as a great proportion of it becomes staggy, and will not grow.

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The Leghorns and similar breeds are too small and become staggy too soon.

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The hurrons then inhabited most advantageously in that place, for as much as for the abundance of dears and staggs, from whence they have the name since of Staggy.

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Again, poor old Staggy, daring still in his dotage, took a fall while scrambling on the steep banks of the Stony Bottom.

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Choice large capons and ducks were in steady demand, but I blushed for my profession when I read that roasting chickens were running coarse, staggy, and of irregular value. 

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