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scraggy

  • /ˈskɹæɡi/

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adjective scraggier · scraggiest

  1. Rough and irregular; jagged. Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
  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.

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adj very lean

Españolenjuto, escuálido
Italianoscheletrico

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@misc{scraggy_2026,
  title = {scraggy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scraggy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}