Scraggy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æɡi

Full definition of scraggy

Adjective

1. Rough and irregular; jagged.
• circa 1890 William Dean Howells, Tennyson, stanza 18:Her tender arms the angry sharpness rueOf many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
• 1894, Gilbert Parker, The Trail of The Sword. ch. 10:He grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
2. Lean or thin, scrawny.
• 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, ch. 2: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.

Derived terms

• scraggily
• scragginess