▪ I. saggy, a.1 Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈsægɪ)
[f. sag n.1 + -y.]
Sedgy, reedy.
| 1609 Heywood Brit. Troy xv. xxviii. 391 Fear gave my body winges. In a deepe Saggy couert I obscure me. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss. |
▪ II. saggy, a.2 colloq. and dial.
(ˈsægɪ)
[f. sag v. + -y.]
Apt to ‘sag’ (see quots.).
| 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xlii. (1856) 391 The observatory of Sir James Ross at Leopold Island was moist and saggy. 1854 A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. II. 193 That gate wants knocking up at the hinges, it hangs so saggy. 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds s.v. Sag, ‘A saggy body,’—a very stout person, whose flesh appears to hang. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss., Saggy, adj. said of anything drawn or bent down by weight. 1977 ‘L. Egan’ Blind Search ii. 30 An old saggy couch to sleep on. |
Add: Hence ˈsagginess n.
| 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xxi. 355 Jamaica complained of the ‘sagginess’ of the weather. 1986 New Yorker 24 Mar. 40/3 Flab and a general sagginess had set in. |