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...
   • Hayes is one of the ruggiest men in the game. He has fought most of the cracks of his weight in the country and one or two from England.1912 March 11, “Trendall Meets Near Champion in Grover Hayes”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo., page 10, column 2
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
   • Acrilan “Ruggy” Bears (floor samples)1959 December 29, Frost’s Carpets and Rugs, “Pre-Inventory: Price Reductions on Our Regular Merchandise”, in Simpsons’ Daily Leader-Times, volume 72, number 305, Kittanning, Pa., page 10