Scraggly

Definition: Scraggly

Scraggly

Adjective

1. Lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door".

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Date "scraggly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Rah-rah! Good over evil! Do what must be done! Hang in there, Kitten, it's almost Friday! Is that what the scraggly little ponce armed you with to fight the big bad bogeyman (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

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Books

• A Very Scraggly Christmas Tree (Publish-A-Book) (reference)

• Scraggly, the stowaway cat (reference)

• The Raggly Scraggly No-Soap No-Scrub Girl (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Land which has been cut over and burned over. After a fire the poplar seems to grow up; most of the land is covered with this scraggly growth of inferior timber. Near Nelma, Wisconsin, in Forest County. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Joad could see it ahead of him, its poor branches curving over the way, its load of leaves tattered and scraggly as a molting chicken

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Bulgarian 

счупен (scraggy), рунтав (bushy, fleecy, ragged, rough, shag, shaggy, thick), рошав (brushy, ragged, rough, scraggy, shag, shaggy, towheaded, unkempt), щърбав (scraggy), висящ на парцали, провиснал (bagged, baggy, flaccid, scraggy, straggling). (various references)

German

rauh (abrasive, bleak, bleakly, coarse, crude, gnarled, grating, gravelly, gruff, harsh, harshly, hoarse, husky, inclement, inclemently, raucous, raucously, raw, rough, roughly, rugged, severe, sore, stark, throatily, throaty, tough, unrefined, unwrought, wild). (various references)

Greek 

ισχνόσ (gaunt, lank, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scrawny, skinny, slab-sided, slender, slim, spare, thin), ανώμαλοσ (aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, bumpy, irregular, rough, rugged, spotty, uneven), τραχύσ (abrasive, abrupt, coarse, grating, gritty, gruff, harsh, inclinable, ragged, raucous, rough, rude, rugged, scabrous, screechy, seamy, throaty, tough). (various references)

Hungarian

egyenetlen (bitty, cragged, erratic, irregular, jagged, jerky, jolting, out of level, patchy, ragged, rough, rugged, scored, scraggy, uneven), durva (barbaric, broad, brusque, brutal, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, gross, harsh, hirsute, impious, insensible, offensive, ragged, ramage, Randy, robustic, rough, rude, scraggy, scurrilous, stogy, uncouth). (various references)

Pig Latin

agglyscray.(various references)

Russian 

взъерошенный (disheveled, dishevelled). (various references)

Spanish

ralo (insubstantial, rarified, thin), desaseado (scruff, slatternly, sleazily, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, tatty, uncared for, untidy). (various references)

Thai

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Misspellings

"Scraggly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scaggly, scragg, scraggle, scraggley, Scrogg, scruggly. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: scraggy.

-2 letters: craggy, slaggy.

-3 letters: acyls, aryls, carls, clags, clary, clays, crags, glary, grays, gyral, raggy, saggy, scaly, scary, scrag.

-4 letters: acyl, agly, arcs, aryl, cagy, carl, cars, cays, clag, clay, crag, gags, gals, gars, gays, gray, lacs, lacy, lags, lars, lays, racy, rags, rays, ryas, sagy, scag, scar, scry, slag, slay.

-5 letters: als, arc.