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SCRAGGY (scraggier, scraggiest)
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• SCRAGGY (adjective)
The adjective SCRAGGY has 2 senses:
1. being very thin
2. having a sharply uneven surface or outline
Familiarity information: SCRAGGY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being very thin
Synonyms:
boney; bony; scraggly; scraggy; scrawny; skinny; underweight; weedy
Context example:
pale bony hands
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
Derivation:
scrag (a person who is unusually thin and scrawny)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a sharply uneven surface or outline
Synonyms:
Context example:
scraggy cliffs
Similar:
uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)
Context examples
He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She raised up a panel which was leaning against the wall, and showed a rude painting of a scraggy and angular fowl, with very long legs and a spotted body.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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