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scragginess

scragginess noun: roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.

Noun

scragginess (uncountable)

  1. Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
    • He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.2004, Norman R. Beaupré, Marginal Enemies, →ISBN, page 59
  2. Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.
    • [I]f Marian's girlish slimness showed faint, prophetic signs of degenerating into scragginess, George was still far too deeply in love to heed such evil and irreverent prophecies.1900, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, “A Wrong Altar”, in Cupid's Garden
    • There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.1922, Elinor Glyn, chapter 21, in Man and Maid

Origin of scragginess

From scraggy + -ness.

Questions about scragginess

What does scragginess mean?
Scragginess means roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
What part of speech is scragginess?
Scragginess is a noun.

Words near scragginess in the dictionary

  1. scragged
  2. scraggedness
  3. scraggier
  4. scraggiest
  5. scraggily
  6. scragginess
  7. scragging
  8. scraggings
  9. scraggle
  10. scraggle-bearded
  11. scraggled

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