Scraggy \Scrag"gy\, a. [Compar. Scragger; superl.
Scraggiest.]
1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock."
--J. Philips.
[1913 Webster]
2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck."
--Sir W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scraggy
adj 1: having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled
legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scrawny, skinny,
underweight, weedy]
2: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged
outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jagged, jaggy]
[also: scraggiest, scraggier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "scraggy":
Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, angular, asperous, bony, corrugated,
cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed,
dwarfish, elfin, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly,
gaunt, gawky, gravelly, harsh, incipient, ironbound, jagged, jaggy,
lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager, midget,
nanoid, pygmy, ragged, rawboned, rockbound, rocky, rudimental,
rudimentary, rugged, rugose, rugous, runty, saw-toothed, sawtooth,
scabrous, scragged, scraggly, scrawny, scrubby, serrate, serrated,
shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skinny, snagged, snaggled,
snaggy, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, squat, stony, stunted,
thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, undersize, undersized,
underweight, uneven, unlevel, unsmooth, wizened, wrinkled
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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