Scraggy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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