scraggy

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Adjective

scraggy (comparative scraggier, superlative scraggiest)

  1. Rough and irregular; jagged.
    • c. 1890, William Dean Howells, Tennyson, stanza 18:
      Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue
      Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
    • 1894, Gilbert Parker, chapter 10, in The Trail of The Sword:
      e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
  2. Lean or thin, scrawny.

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  • scraggy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.