Scraggy

Definition: Scraggy

Scraggy

Adjective

1. Having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck".

2. Having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scraggy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Note: Scraggy \Scrag"gy\, adjective. [Comparative Scragger; superlative Scraggiest.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Scraggy

Littleness

Weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin; (narrow); granular; (powdery); shrunk; brevipennate.

Roughness

Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.

Crosswords: Scraggy

It is good for nothing except to produce people with scraggy bodies and empty heads

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "scraggy": scraggy neck. Additional references.

Albanian

thatanik (gaunt), i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهزول الجسم, ‏نحيف (skinny), ‏ضامر (atrophied, lank, lean, raw boned, skinny, slender). (various references)

Bulgarian 

счупен (scraggly), рошав (brushy, ragged, rough, scraggly, shag, shaggy, towheaded, unkempt), щърбав (scraggly), кокалест (angular, gnarled, osseous, raw boned, scrawny), мършав (fleshless, gaunt, lank, meager, meagre, raw boned, scrannel, scrawny, skinny, thin, weedy), провиснал (bagged, baggy, flaccid, scraggly, straggling). (various references)

Czech

vyzáblý (emaciated, gaunt, spare, wasted), vychyrtlý. (various references)

Farsi 

لاغر (Angular, Gaunt, Lean, Scrannel, Skinny, Slight, Slim, Slink, Spare, Thin, Toom, Wizen), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Rude, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), دارای دندانه های غیرمنظم . (various references)

Finnish

hontelo (gangling, lank). (various references)

French

efflanqué (scrawny), déchiqueté, décharné (scrawny). (various references)

German

sehnig (sinewy, stringy, wiry), minderwertig (base, cheap, gimcrack, inferior, low, low class, low quality, poor, poor quality, shoddy, substandard, unwholesome), dürr (arid, aridly, barren, dry, lank, scrawny, seares, searly, skinny, withered). (various references)

Greek 

κοκαλιάρησ (skinny), ισχνός (puny, tenuous, thin). (various references)

Hebrew 

כחוש (gaunt, haggard, lean, macilent, peaky, skinny, spare, thin), צ� ום (lean, skinny, spare, spindly, thin). (various references)

Hungarian

vézna (lean, meager, meagre, peaky, puny, scrawny, thin), érdes (choppy, coarse, cragged, harsh, hirsute, hoarse, muddy, ragged, raspy, rough, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scrapy, scratchy), szirtes (cragged, craggy, rocky), kiaszott (withered), egyenetlen (bitty, cragged, erratic, irregular, jagged, jerky, jolting, out of level, patchy, ragged, rough, rugged, scored, scraggly, uneven), csomós (bunchy, gnarled, gnarly, kinky, knaggy, knotty, lumpy, nodular, nodulose, snagged), csenevész (runt, scrub, scrubby, scruffy), bütykös (gnarled, knobby, knobly, knotty, nodulous, scraggly, snagged, snaggy, tuberous). (various references)

Italian

ruvido (coarse, crabbed, harsh, rough, rugged, scabrous, scratchy, shaggy), magro (gaunt, lame, lean, low fat, meager, meagre, narrow, poor, scant, scrawny, skimmed, skimpy, skinny, slight, slim, thin, thinly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"った�"す (angular, be crowded or jammed with people, rugged, sound of gushing water, to be in a turmoil, to be in confusion or commotion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"つ�"つ (angular, rugged). (various references)

Manx

thanney (attenuated, flimsy, hollow, hollow as friendship, lank, lanky, lean, meagre, rare, shallow, sharp face, skinny, slender, slim, sparely built, tenuous, thin, thin as paper, thin in build, thin of liquid, watery, watery of colour, watery of soup liquid, wateryliquid, weak, weak as solution, weedy), neurea (entangled, lumpy, rough, uneven, uneven as ground), moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, slack, slow, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), lhome (arid, bald, bare, fleshless, leafless, meagre, naked, neat, nude, severe, spare), garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar), craueagh (bony, osseous, skinny). (various references)

Pig Latin

aggyscray.(various references)

Portuguese

rugoso (furrowed, gnarled, gnarly, hackly, joggly, lumpy, ridged, ridgy, rough, rugged, rugous, scabrous, scratchy, scrawny, wrinkly), que só tem ossos (scrawny), magro (angular, bony, contracted, gaunt, haggard, jejune, lank, lean, meager, meagre, raw-boned, reduced, reedy, scrawny, shrunken, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), magricela (scrag, scrawny, weed, weedy), descarnado (gaunt, meager, meagre, raw-boned, scrawny, skinny), áspero (abrupt, acerb, bluff, coarse, cornered, harsh, jarring, joggly, lacerated, poignant, ragged, raucous, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scratchy, scrawny, seamy, severe). (various references)

Romanian

stâncos (bluff, cliffy, craggy, rock-like, rocky), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), uscãţiv (lean, spare, thin, wizened), ogârjit (emaciated, skinny), neregulat (broken, disorderly, erratic, fitful, irregular, irregularly, odd, patchy, ragged, rugged, snatchy, unequal, uneven), descãrnat (emaciated, fleshless, thin), costeliv (emaciated, gaunt, meager, meagre, skinny), asimetric (asymmetric, asymmetrical, irregular). (various references)

Russian 

тощий (gaunt, lank, lean, scrannel, skinny). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mršav (emaciated, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scrannel, scrawny, skinny, thin), hrapav (coarse, cracked, harsh, husky, ragged, rasping, raucous, rough, rugged, scabrous). (various references)

Spanish

flaco (foible, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scrawny, skinny, thin, weakly, weakness), áspero (abrupt, acid, brusque, coarse, crotchety, disagreeable, grating, hackly, hard, harsh, jagged, rasping, rough, rugged, severe, sharp, sour, strict, tart, unpolished). (various references)

Swedish

skranglig (cranky, lanky, ramshackle, rickety, spindly), tanig (scrawny, thin), mager (gaunt, hungry, ill-conditioned, lank, lean, meagre, parsimonious, peaked, raw boned, scanty, scrawny, skinny, spare, thin), benig (bony, puzzling, scrawny, skinny). (various references)

Thai

ผอมจนเห็นกระ�"ูก. (various references)

Turkish

sıska (gaunt, lank, puny, rickety, scrawny, skinny, spare, weedy), iskelet gibi (like a bag of bones, like a skeleton, rawboned, skeletal), dik uçlu, cılız (fatless, feeble, of poor physique, puny, rickety, scrawny, sickly, skinny, spindling, spindly, undersized, weak), bir deri bir kemik (emaciated, nothing but skin and bones, rawboned, skinny, starveling). (various references)

Ukrainian

убогий (bald, bare, gimp, jimp, pokey, poking, poky, poverty stricken, poverty-struck, scant, scanty, skimp, starveling, stingy, wretched), худющий, пісний (lean, meager, meagre). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khẳng khiu (meager, meagre, scrawny), gầy giơ xương (hide-bound). (various references)

macer. (various references)

Misspellings

"Scraggy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scorggie, scragg, scrags, Scrogg. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: craggy.

-2 letters: crags, grays, raggy, saggy, scary, scrag.

-3 letters: arcs, cagy, cars, cays, crag, gags, gars, gays, gray, racy, rags, rays, ryas, sagy, scag, scar, scry.

-4 letters: arc, ars, ays, car, cay, cry, gag, gar, gas, gay, rag, ras, ray, rya, sac, sag, say, yar.

-5 letters: ag, ar, as, ay, ya.

+1 letter: scraggly.