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scragly

scragly is the dated form of scraggy.

Meaning of scraggy

Adjective

scraggy (comparative scraggier, superlative scraggiest)

  1. Rough and irregular; jagged.
    • Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue
      Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;c. 1890, William Dean Howells, Tennyson, stanza 18
  2. Lean or thin, scrawny.
    • 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.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 2, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees...

Forms of scragly

comparativemore scragly
superlativemost scragly

Questions about scragly

What is scragly the dated form of?
Scragly is the dated form of scraggy.

Words near scragly in the dictionary

  1. scraggling
  2. scraggly
  3. scraggy
  4. scragh
  5. scraghs
  6. scragly
  7. scrags
  8. scraight
  9. scraighted
  10. scraighting
  11. scraights

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