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Definition of Stagy
1. Adjective. Having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality. "Stagy heroics"
Definition of Stagy
1. a. Having an air or manner characteristic of the stage; theatrical; artificial; as, a stagy tone or bearing; -- chiefly used depreciatively.
Definition of Stagy
1. Adjective. theatrical ¹
2. Adjective. unnaturally showy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stagy
1. having a theatrical quality [adj STAGIER, STAGIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagy
Literary usage of Stagy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"The fur of a stagy skin is just as good as any other; but the half- grown ...
And it was in this way, and in this way only, that stagy skins were ever taken ..."
2. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"The fur of a stagy skin is just as good as any other; but the half- grown ...
And it was in this way, and in this way only, that stagy skins were ever taken ..."
3. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... asento strike a stagy attitude, ... theatrically: in a stagy manner, ...
his theatrical (I. stagy) conduct. ..."
4. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... his theatrical (1. stagy) conduct. teatterin johtaja manager of a [the] theater,
theater manager; vrt. seur. -ohjaaja stage-manager ..."
5. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... his theatrical (1. stagy) conduct. teatteri n II johtaja manager of a [the]
theater, theater manager; vrt. seur. -ohjaaja stage-manager ..."
6. Nights at the Play: A View of the English Stage by Dutton Cook (1883)
"In any case, Mr. Booth as Richelieu is not more " stagy " than have been his
predecessors in the part. That the American tragedian has very completely ..."
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