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scraggy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈskɹæɡi/

Meanings

1. Rough and irregular; jagged.
   • [H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it. 1894, Gilbert Parker, chapter 10, in The Trail of The Sword:
   • Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier; c. 1890, William Dean Howells, Tennyson, stanza 18:
2. Lean or thin, scrawny.
   • He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
   • On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck. 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 2, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

scragginess · scraggily

Translations (10)

es enjuto (very lean) · es escuálido (very lean) · cs hubený (very lean) · uk захлялий (very lean) · cs vychrtlý (very lean) · cs vyzáblý (very lean) · bg мършав (very lean) · it scheletrico (very lean) · uk сухорлявий (very lean) · uk худющий (very lean)