Knowing about current manuscript lacking support? (6)
I believe the answer is:
flimsy
'lacking support?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.
'knowing about current manuscript' is the wordplay.
'knowing' becomes 'fly' ().
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'manuscript' becomes 'ms' (abbreviation for manuscript).
'i'+'ms'='ims'
'fly' going around 'ims' is 'FLIMSY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for flimsy that I've seen before include "Light and thin, easily torn or broken" , "Weak, insubstantial" , "Light and thin, fragile" , "Light and thin, material or argument, perhaps" , "Not strong" .)