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SCRAGGED

Definitions: SCRAGGED

SCRAGGED

Adjective

1. Lean and rough; scraggy.

2. Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCRAGGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)



Specialty Definitions: SCRAGGED

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Slang in 1811

SCRAGGED. Hanged. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Crosswords: SCRAGGED

English words defined with "SCRAGGED": Scraggedness. (references)

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Usage Frequency: SCRAGGED

"SCRAGGED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SCRAGGED" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Rhyming with "SCRAGGED"

Words rhyming with "SCRAGGED" (pronounced 'Scrag"ged'): Cragged, Knagged, rugged, Toged. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SCRAGGED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-g-r-s"

-1 letter: cadgers, cragged, daggers.

-2 letters: aggers, cadger, cadges, cadres, cagers, cedars, dagger, eggars, gagers, graced, graces, grades, ragged, sacred, sagged, sagger, scared, seggar.

-3 letters: acred, acres, agers, agger, arced, cades, cadge, cadre, caged, cager, cages, cards, cared, cares, carse, cased, cedar, crags, daces, dares, dears, degas, drags, dregs, egads, eggar, escar, gaged, gager, gages, gears, grace, grade, grads, raced, races, raged, rages, rased, reads, sager, sarge, scare, scrag, serac.

-4 letters: aced, aces, acre, aged, ager, ages, arcs, ares, arse, cade, cads, cage, card, care, cars, case, crag, dace, dags, dare, dear, drag, dreg, ears, egad, eggs, eras, ergs, gads, gaed, gaes, gage, gags, gars, gear, geds, grad, race, rads, rage, rags, rase, read, recs, reds, regs, sade, sage, sard, scad, scag, scar, sear, sera.

-5 letters: ace, ads, age, arc, are, ars, cad, car, dag, ear, eds, egg, era, erg, ers, gad, gae, gag, gar, gas, ged, rad, rag, ras, rec, red, reg, res, sac, sad, sae, sag, sea, sec, seg, ser.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCRAGGED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 52 41 47 47 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .-.    .-    --.    --.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01010010 01000001 01000111 01000111 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#82 &#65 &#71 &#71 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0052 0041 0047 0047 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5337523541413938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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