Resembling or relating to a cage; cramped or confining, or evasive and wary.
From 'cage' + '-y' (adjective-forming suffix). Can mean literally cage-like or figuratively cagey in behavior.
Most people use 'cagey' today, but 'caggy' shows up in older texts as an alternative form—a reminder that spelling and word forms were much more flexible before modern standardization.
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