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ruggier

ruggier is the comparative form of ruggy.

Meaning of ruggy

Adjective

ruggy (comparative ruggier or more ruggy, superlative ruggiest or most ruggy)

  1. Frusty, frowsy.
    • The district is mountainous, and the mountains are among the ruggiest on the face of the earth, huge masses of broken crags, precipices many hundreds of feet in height, inaccessible peaks the sides of which are covered with snow that never melts.1897 September 3, “Thousands Massacred”, in Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, number 28, Pittsburgh, Penn., section “A Previous War of the English With the Afghans in Which a Whole Army Perished”, page...
  2. Of, relating to, or resembling a rug.
    • Everyone but the Terrys had given Alice rugs. It was the ruggiest wedding the world had ever known.1933 July 9, Ellis Parker Butler, “Enough Is Sufficient”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LII, page 16, column 2

Questions about ruggier

What is ruggier the comparative form of?
Ruggier is the comparative form of ruggy.

Words near ruggier in the dictionary

  1. rugger bugger
  2. rugger buggers
  3. Ruggeri
  4. Ruggeris
  5. ruggers
  6. ruggier
  7. Ruggiero
  8. Ruggieros
  9. ruggiest
  10. rugging
  11. rugging up

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